A HEREFORD landmark dating back a thousand years is being damaged by yobs, and now a museum has begged them to stop.
A spokesperson from Coningsby Hospital Museum asked young people to stop climbing over the Blackfriars Ruined Priory after they were caught in the act.
The 14th-century Dominican friary can be found in a rose garden off Widemarsh Street, in Hereford, and is looked after by Hereford Council.
According to British Heritage site Britain Express, within the garden is a medieval preaching cross, the only surviving example of the type of cross erected by the friars in their burial grounds.
The story of Blackfriars goes back to around 1200, when the Knights' Hospitallers built a chapel and hospital outside the city walls on what is now Widemarsh Street.
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A museum group asked the yobs to stop damaging the site Picture: Coningsby Hospital Museum
"They are fragile and far from the most stable building," said the museum's spokesperson.
"It costs Hereford Council a lot to maintain these buildings and climbing on them just makes things a lot worse."
The museum asked yobs to have some respect, warning if they fall, they could face serious injury.
"This is a regular occurrence going back many years, probably even decades but these kids weren't the worse we had but still quite rude," said the spokesperson.
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