York's Barbicans (Bars)

Micklegate Bar.

The barbican as shown in the black and white photo above has since disappeared. The colour photo show the bar today.

Monk Bar.

Front and back shown in photos. The rooms inside this gateway house the the Richard III Museum. 360 Degree movie of Richard III Museum & gift shop.

Bootham Bar.

Bootham Bar is a good point to start your walk around York's walls, where there are steps leading up into this gate.

Opposite this gate is the York City Art Gallery where open top tour buses pickup. You can get good photos here of Bootham Bar with York Minster in the background.

The large white Georgian building next to Bootham Bar called 'De Grey Rooms' has a tourist information shop where you can get maps.

Walmgate Bar.

Walmgate Bar is the only one of York's bars that has retained its barbican (fortified outer gateway). Walmgate Bar also has a timber-framed house on the inner side of the gate that was still lived in up until 1959.