Kings Manor is located in the city of York, Yorkshire. It is used by the University of York as its Department of Archaeology, Centre for Medieval Studies, and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

The Manor was first built to house the Abbot of St. Marys Abbey in about 1270 and was part of the Abbey complex.

Following the Dissolution of the monasteries, the Manor was retained by the Crown and used for the Council of the North until the council was abolished in 1641. It became the official residence of the President of the Council in 1561 and was gradually enlarged and extended westwards. In the late 16th century, under the Earl of Huntingdon, the president of the council from 1572 to 95, residential wings and a service building were added. The ashlar, or dressed stone in the Manor after the 1560's is of reused stone from St Mary's Abbey.

The Huntingdon Room in the Elizabethan extension, has an impressive plaster frieze with the arms of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Much of the building work was done during the reign of Elizabeth I. The manor was visited by at least three Kings, Henry VIII, Charles I and James I. The Stuarts stayed regularly at the Manor, en route from Edinburgh to London, and in their time a new U-shaped building created the present, curiously irregular first courtyard.

In 1833 the foundation of the Yorkshire School for the Blind used Kings Manor as a base. From the 1870's the Manor was restored and enlarged. In the 1890's they built a gymnasium and a cloister to create the second courtyard. After the Blind School left in 1958, the Manor was taken over by York City Council, who then leased it to York University in 1963. They used it for Advanced Architectural Studies. A major restoration project swept away many of the service buildings, replaced an 1880's schoolroom with a more modern tutorial block, which is now used as the Department of Archaeology. The Principal's house, now home to the Centre for Medieval Studies, was built in 1900.