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Past the Minster's west front a gateway leads into Dean's Park , a quiet green oasis bordered by a seven-arched fragment of arcade from the Norman archbishop's palace and by York Minster Library (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; free), housed in the thirteenth-century chapel of the same palace. Among its more interesting exhibits is the baptismal entry for Guy Fawkes (April 16, 1570), removed from St Michael-le-Belfrey on High Petergate (open for Sunday services only), immediately south of the Minster. Walk through Dean's Park with the Minster on your right, then through the gate at the top to reach the Treasurer's House in Chapter House Street (Easter-Oct Mon-Thurs, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm; GBP3.70; NT), a glorious seventeenth-century town house that stands on the site of houses used by the Minster's treasurers until the Dissolution. Just around the corner in College Street stands St William's College , an eye-catching half-timbered building studded with oriel windows, initially dedicated to the great-grandson of William the Conqueror (first Archbishop of York) and built in its present guise in 1467 for the Minster's chantry priests.
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