[{SlideShowNav}] !!!Ruins of St. Marys Abbey [{Image src='120uk.jpg' height='800' alt='Ruins of St. Marys Abbey' class='image_left' width='600'}] [{SET customtitle='Ruins of St. Marys Abbey'}] \\ Ruins of St. Marys Abbey in the garden adjoining the Yorkshire Museum in York. The former Benedictine abbey was the richest in northern England; it was destroyed on orders of Henry VIII during the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" in the 16th century.