St William's College

St William’s College is the timber-framed building tucked into the shadow of the East Window of York Minster, identifiable by its jettied upper stories and the carved wooden angels decorating the courtyard entrance. Built in fourteen sixty-one, it functioned as a residence for the chantry priests who sang daily masses in the cathedral. When the Reformation closed the chantries, the house passed into private hands. In sixteen forty-two, King Charles the First used it to house his Royalist printing press during the Civil War.