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In Leland's description of Ripon, "the Old Abbay of Ripon" is certainly represented as having stood on the site which in Leland's time was occupied by the Lady-kirk, adjacent, that is, to the west side of the street now called St. It is, however, still possible to suppose that the site in St.
But mediæval morality in general must not be condemned, of course, for a few recorded crimes. About 1450 the south-east corner of the central tower gave way, and so unsafe was the church that service had to be held in the Lady-kirk.
The Lady-kirk itself has vanished long ago. At this time was begun the greatest architectural enterprise that had been undertaken at Ripon since the twelfth century, namely, the rebuilding of the nave of the minster. The Transitional nave, it was said, had become ruinous through age and storms, but the real motive for its destruction was probably an ambition to enlarge the building.
Mary-gate, but this name again seems to be modern, and to have arisen from a notion that 'St. Mary-gate' is the origin of the word 'Stammergate' a notion which would be rendered more plausible by the fact that this was the situation of the Lady-kirk. The question whether his monastery church stood over the Saxon crypt which exists below the present Cathedral is reserved for Chap.
Mary-gate may have been that of the domestic buildings only, and that the monastery church stood over this crypt; or that "the Old Abbay" means the Scottish Monastery, the site of which was also probably not far from St. Mary-gate and may have been confused by Leland with that afterwards occupied by the Lady-kirk.
It was, as has been said, the parish church of the huge parish of Ripon. Yet the town itself possessed at an early period a separate parish church of Allhallows, a memory of which survives in 'Allhallowgate. There was also an old chapel of the Virgin called the 'Lady-kirk, in 'Stammergate, and there were chapels at the two hospitals and the palace.
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