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400 years of York's Bar Convent

Sister Agatha of the Bar Convent, York

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Nun, Sister Agatha gives the BBC a tour around York's historic Bar Convent, which is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year. The Bar Convent is the UK's longest continuously inhabited convent.

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