York Historic Environment Record

In the early part of the seventeenth century the palace and grounds were let to Sir Arthur Ingram a wealthy London merchant and civil servant.
The Ingram mansion seems to have been located to the west of the main site and to have been a development of the medieval gatehouse range to the medieval Archbishop's palace that stood on a northsouth axis and was attached to the north west tower of the minster.
The development of a new house there rather than on the actual palace nucleus suggests it (the palace) had already been severely reduced and was ruinous. While the mansion was set to the western end of Deans Park the rest was developed as formal gardens.
In 1649 Sir Arthur Ingram the younger, a supporter of the Royalist cause during the Civil War, was declared delinquent and he compounded with parliament and then retired to his estate at Temple Newsam. Interest in the York house and gardens gradually waned after the
death of the first Arthur Ingram (Ryedale 2022).


Dean's Park, so named c. 1910, previously the Deanery Gardens, is an area of lawns and trees to N. of the Minster, occupied in the Middle Ages by the grounds of the Archbishop's Palace. In c. 1620 Sir Arthur Ingram built a new mansion in the W. part of the palace site and laid out elaborate gardens. The remains of this house and of the great hall of the palace, used in the 18th century as a riding school, were demolished in 1814–16.

'Houses: Cumberland Street-George Street', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central (London, 1981), pp. 128-135.

NMR Information

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey

BF095667 SIR ARTHUR INGRAMS HOUSE, YORK Plans are photographs of the originals

Person of historic interest/notable pers Sir ARTHUR INGRAM 1613

RCHME, 1981, City of York Volume V: The Central Area (Monograph). SYO65.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.

Ryedale Archaeology Services Ltd, 2022, The Old Palace York Minster (Unpublished document). SYO3114.