King Henry the Eighth closed the monasteries in 1535 and many of these buildings were pulled down.

This had happened to the Priory of St Andrew in York. Archaeologists came to dig there and found buried walls and broken parts of these buildings.

One of the things they found was a lot of painted glass which had once been part of the windows of the Priory. It was broken into tiny fragments and needed a lot of work to clean and restore it, but even the little pieces help to show what colours and patterns had once been in the windows.