Memorials and blue plaques in York
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across York. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this England city, and to visit them in person.
192 locations, organised A to Z. Includes 2 war memorials.
A

Ald. Edna Annie Crichton
30, Clifton

Ald. George Hudson
44 Monkgate

Ald. George Hudson
1 College Street

Ald. William Cornwell
Cumberland Street

All Saints
North Street

Ancient Society of York Florists
24-26 Colliergate

Anglian Tower
Museum Gardens

Anne Lister
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate

Anne Lister
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate

Association of Voluntary Guides to the City Of York
Library Square, Museum Street
B

Bedern Chapel
Bartle Garth

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree CH
Penn House, 38 St Mary's

Black plaque № 9295
Clifford's Tower

Black plaque № 9344
52A Stonegate

Black Swan, York
44 Coney Street

Blue Bridge
Blue Bridge Lane

Blue plaque № 66039
19 Coney Street

Bootham
6 Bootham

bowman shutters, York
Marygate

Brass plaque № 42577
National Railway Museum, Leeman Road

Bronze plaque № 49754
St. Saviour’s Place

Bronze plaque № 49755
Aldwark

Bronze plaque № 49756
31 St Saviourgate

Bronze plaque № 9066
Yorkshire Museum

Bronze plaque № 9187
Peasholme Green
C
D
E

Earl Thomas Percy
Micklegate Bar

Earl Thomas Percy
9 The Pavement

East Coast Main Line
at the end of Platform 1, York Railway Station, Station Road,

Edwin Ridsdale Tate
All Saints Church, North Street

Elizabeth Montagu
Treasurer’s House, Minster Yard

Elizabeth Montagu
Treasurer’s House, Minster Yard

Esther Tuke
Trinity Court, Trinity Lane

Exhibition Square
Exhibition Square
F
G

George Butterworth MC
5 Driffield Terrace

George Hudson Street
1 George Hudson Street

George Robinson
53 Fossgate

George Russell
20 Kensington Street

George Townsend Andrews
31 Castlegate

George Walker Milburn
St Leonard’s Place

George Yeld
29 Clifton

Grey plaque № 51493
New Walk

Grey plaque № 73960
Middletons Hotel, Cromwell Road

Grey plaque № 9371
Tower Gardens

Guy Fawkes
Stonegate

Guy Fawkes
25 High Petergate

Guy Fawkes
St. Michael-Le-Belfrey
H
J

J. B. Atkinson
Monkgate

James Backhouse
92 Micklegate

James Pigott Pritchett
The Chapel, York Cemetery, Cemetery Road

Jaques Sterne
Minster Yard

John Armitt
York Railway Station, York

John Barry
Hull Road

John Barry
York Pavilion Hotel

John Bourchier
88-90 Micklegate

John Bowes Morrell
111 Walmgate

John Carr
Castlegate

John Carr
29 Castlegate

John Carr
Carr's Lane

John Goodricke FRS
Minster Yard

John Goodricke FRS
Minster Yard

John Phillips
St Mary's Lodge, Marygate

John Shannon CBE
18 Blake Street

John Smeaton FRS
Lendal Bridge

John Walker
70 Goodramgate

John Wesley MA
Newgate

John Wesley MA
60-62 Aldwark

John Woolman
Tuke House, Cromwell Road

John Woolman
Marygate Lane

Joseph Aloysius Hansom
114 Micklegate

Joseph Aloysius Hansom
St. George's Roman Catholic Church, George Street

Joseph Mollett
9 Church Street

Joseph Rowntree
49 Bootham

Joseph Rowntree
10 Pavement

Joseph Rowntree
Walmgate Stray

Joseph Terry
3-5 St Helen’s Square
K
L

Lady Peckitt's Yard
Lady Peckitt's Yard

Lady Sarah Hewley
St Saviourgate

Lady Sarah Hewley
31 St. Saviourgate

lane from the staithes, York
43 Coney Street

Laurence Sterne
35 Stonegate

Leeman Road District War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Lendal Cellars
26 Lendal

Lord General Thomas Fairfax
2 Blossom Street
M

Mansion House
St Helen's Square

Mary Ann Craven
Coppergate

Mary Ellen Best
14 Clifton

Mary Ward
Bar Convent, Blossom Street

Masonic Hall, York
Masonic Hall, St Saviourgate, York

Micklegate Bar
Micklegate

Minster Gates, York
Minster Gates

Monk Bar
Goodramgate

mounting steps
80 Goodramgate

Multangular Tower
Museum Gardens
N
O
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Q
R
S

Samuel Tuke
Tuke House, Lawrence Street

Second Division
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Silvanus Phillips Thompson
51 Bootham

Sir Henry Jenkyns
College Street

Sir Martin Bowes
23 Peasholme Green

Sir Ralph Wedgwood
York

Sir Rt Hon. Richard Boyle KG PC
Blake Street

Sir Thomas Herbert 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Herbert’s House, Pavement

Sir Thomas Herbert 1st Baronet
7 High Petergate

St George's Hall Cinema
Castlegate

St Margaret Clitherow
Ouse Bridge

St Margaret Clitherow
35 Shambles

St Margaret's School For Girls
54 Micklegate

St Martin-le-Grand
St Martin-le-Grand, Coney Street

St Mary's Abbey
Off Exhibition Square

St Sampson's
Church Street

St Stephen's Orphanage
89 The Mount

St. Andrew Society of York
19 High Ousegate

St. Leonard's Hospital
Library Square

St. Oswald’s Hall
St. Oswald’s Road

Stephen Pit Corder
4 Bootham Terrace

Stone plaque № 51495
1 William Court

Stone plaque № 9282
Jewbury

Stonegate
41 Stonegate

Sydney Smith
More House, Heslington Lane
T
V
W

W. H. Auden
54 Bootham

Walmgate Bar
Walmgate Bar

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
St Crux, Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate

White plaque № 52266
King’s Manor, Exhibition Square

William Bell
The Grand, Station Rise

William Brierley
Shipton Street

William Carr
17 Bishophill Senior

William Etty RA
20 Feasegate

William Milner
Station Road

Winifred Cruse
York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk
Y

Ye Olde Starre Inne
40 Stonegate

York Aerodrome
Corner of Clifton Moor Gate and Kettlestring Lane.

York Blue Coat Boys' School
St Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green, YO1 7PW

York College for Girls
62 Low Petergate

York Irish Community
64 Walmgate

York Minster Library
Minster Yard

York railway station air raid
York Railway Station

York Rugby League Club
The Hut, Wigginton Road

York Women’s Social and Political Union
36 Coney Street

York Zero Post
York station

Yorkshire Agricultural Society
44 Coney Street

Yorkshire Gentlemen's Cricket Club
4 Davygate

Yves Mahé
13 Coney Street
Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.