Overview

• Remnants of a 12th- to 13th-century hospital, believed to be St Leonard’s, were found beneath a void on St Leonard’s Place outside York Theatre Royal
• The buried complex once stretched from today’s Museum Gardens to the Theatre Royal and later housed the Royal Mint before a Georgian streetscape was laid over it in 1836
• Emergency works in May halted traffic and prompted a two-week diversion, with the road reopening to vehicles on June 13
• Archaeological teams are documenting discoveries in line with Chartered Institute for Archaeologists standards, photographing walls and recording measurements
• Ongoing investigation aims to map the hospital’s layout and analyze artifacts to shed light on medieval healthcare and the city’s development