York Minster
York Minster | ||
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The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter | ||
Canon Missioner Maggie McLean | | |
Archdeacon | Samantha Rushton | |
Laity | ||
Director of music | Robert Sharpe | |
Business manager | David Colthup (Chapter Steward) | |
Official name | York Minster cathedral precinct | |
Designated | 8 October 1937 | |
Reference no. | 1017777 | |
Listed Building – Grade I | ||
Official name | Cathedral Church of St Peter, York Minster | |
Designated | 14 June 1954 | |
Reference no. | 1257222 |
York Minster, formally the "Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York", is an
The first record of a church on the site dates to 627; the title "
The minster retains most of its medieval stained glass, a significant survival among European churches.[7] The east window, which depicts the Last Judgment, is the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world. The north transept contains the Five Sisters window, which consists of five lancets, each over 53 feet (16.3 m) high, filled with grisaille glass.[8]
History
A bishop of York was summoned to the
Moves towards a more substantial building began shortly after Edwin's baptism. According to Bede, Edwin set about building a larger church made of stone, intended to enclose the wooden chapel in which he had been baptised.
In 741, the cathedral may have been damaged or destroyed in a fire.
In January 1069 a rebellion in support of
The
The Chapter House was begun in the 1260s and was completed before 1296. The wide nave was constructed from the 1280s on the Norman foundations. The outer roof was completed in the 1330s, but the vaulting was not finished until 1360. Construction then moved on to the eastern arm and chapels; the Norman choir was demolished in the 1390s with the exception of its undercroft of c. 1160, which was reconstructed to provide a platform for the new high altar.
The
Following the easing of religious tensions some work was done to restore the cathedral. From 1730 to 1736 the whole floor of the minster was relaid in patterned
During the 20th century there was more concerted preservation work, especially following a 1967 survey that revealed the building, in particular the central tower, was close to collapse. £2,000,000 was raised and spent by 1972 to reinforce and strengthen the building foundations and roof. During the excavations that were carried out, remains of the north corner of the Roman Principia (headquarters of the Roman fort of Eboracum) were found under the south transept. This area, as well as remains of the Norman cathedral, re-opened to the public in spring 2013 as part of the new exhibition exploring the history of the building of York Minster.[30]
1984 fire
On 9 July 1984, York Minster suffered a serious fire in its south transept during the early morning hours.[31] Firefighters made a decision to deliberately collapse the roof of the south transept by pouring tens of thousands of gallons of water onto it, in order to save the rest of the building from destruction.[32] A total of 114 firefighters from across North Yorkshire responded to the fire and contained it,[31] while York Minster's staff and clergy rushed to preserve historical objects in the building.[31] The glass of the south transept rose window was shattered by the heat but the lead held it together, allowing it to be taken down for restoration.[33][32] A subsequent investigation found an 80% chance that the fire was caused by a lightning strike to a metal electrical box atop the roof, a 10% chance that the fire was caused by arson, and a 10% chance that the fire was caused by an electrical fault.[31] Some traditionalist Anglicans suggested the fire was a sign of divine displeasure at the recent consecration as Bishop of Durham of David Jenkins, whose views they considered heterodox.[34]
A repair and restoration project was completed in 1988 at a cost of £2.25 million,[31] and included new roof bosses to designs which had won a competition put on by BBC Television's Blue Peter programme for children.[32] The roof trusses were rebuilt in oak, but some were coated with fire-retardant plaster.[31]
2002 West Door renewal
In 2002, the carvings round the great west door. which had become severely weathered, were replaced with new sculptures carved by Minster masons to designs by the sculptor Rory Young, telling the Genesis story.
2007–2018 renovation
In 2007 renovation began on the east front, including the Great East Window, at an estimated cost of £23 million.[35][36] The 311 glass panels from the Great East Window were removed in 2008 for conservation. The project was completed in 2018.[37]
Schools
There have been choir schools associated with the Minster since the 7th century. A 'song school' was founded in 627 by Paulinus of York, the first Archbishop of York.[38] Buildings used by the former Minster school have been awarded listed status, among them the school house built 1830–33,[39] two houses dating back to 1837,[40] and a Georgian building of 1755.[41]
Architecture of the present building
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York Minster is the second-largest
The north and south transepts were the first parts of the new church to be built. They have simple lancet windows, including the Five Sisters in the north transept. These are five lancets, each 16.3 metres (53 ft) tall and five feet wide[42] and glazed with grey (grisaille) glass,[43] rather than narrative scenes or symbolic motifs that are usually seen in medieval stained-glass windows. In the south transept is a rose window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The roofs of the transepts are of wood; that of the south transept was burnt in the fire of 1984 and was replaced in the restoration work which was completed in 1988. New designs were used for the bosses, five of which were designed by winners of a competition organised by the BBC's Blue Peter television programme.
Work began on the
The
The east end of the Minster was built between 1361 and 1405 in the
The sparsely decorated Central Tower was built between 1407 and 1472 and is also in the Perpendicular style. Below this, separating the choir from the crossing and nave is the striking 15th-century
In 2003, English Heritage made publicly available a monograph on the architectural history of York Minster.[49] The book charts the construction and development of the minster based on the architectural recording of the building from the 1970s.
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The cruciform plan of York Minster; drawing by Georg Dehio.
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The chapter house
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The Kings Screen and organ
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Crossing
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Some of the 15 statues of kings, from Henry III to Henry VI, in the 15th-century Kings Screen
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One of the towers, near sunset, York Minster
Stained glass
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The west window (1338–39), with curvilinear tracery in theDecorated style
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Detail from the east window, depicting the first two days of creation
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The east window (1405–1408), in thePerpendicular style
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Detail of aSt Nicholas
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The Five Sisters window, in theEarly Englishstyle
Some of the stained glass in York Minster dates back to the 12th century and much of the glass (white or coloured) came from Germany.[50] The glass was painted, fired, then joined with lead strips (came) into the windows. The 77-foot (23 m) tall and 32-foot (9.8 m) wide[51] Great East Window was created by John Thornton in the early 15th century; he was paid £66 for the work.[52] This is the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the country, according to the Minster.[53] The window represents scenes from the Book of Revelation, and the glazier Thornton may have been influenced by earlier illuminated manuscripts on the subject such as the Latin Douce Apocalypse (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce MS 180) and the Old French Queen Mary Apocalypse (London, British Library Royal MS BXV).[54] The work was conceived by Archbishop John of Thoresby in the mid fourteenth century, but the window itself was only completed thanks to the funding of Bishop Walter Skirlaw and Archbishop Richard Scrope.[54]
Another important window is the 53-foot (16.3 m)
In 2008 a conservation project of the Great East Window commenced, involving the removal, repainting and re-leading of each individual panel.[56] While the window was in storage in the minster's stonemasons' yard, a fire broke out in some adjoining offices, due to an electrical fault, on 30 December 2009.[57] The window's 311 panes, stored in a neighbouring room, were undamaged and were successfully moved to safety.[58][59] In September 2015, the first phase of the renovation project of the East Front of the Minster was completed.[60] The final phase of the £11 million restoration[61] of the 311 panels was completed in September 2017 and they were re-installed between November 2017 and January 2018. In total, the work on the Great East Window had taken 92,400 hours of labour, including the time required to add protective UV coating on the glass.[62] The work was largely undertaken or overseen by Peter Gibson, who worked on all the Minster's windows during his career.[63]
Towers and bells
The two west towers of the minster hold
The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour.
The change ringing bells fell silent in October 2016, following the controversial termination of the ringers' volunteer agreements by the dean and chapter.[64][65] The pause in ringing included the Christmas period of 2016, reported as the first time in over 600 years that the Minster's bells were not heard on Christmas Day.[66] After a year with no change ringing, a new band was appointed and ringing resumed.[67]
York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008. These are added to the existing "Nelson Chime" which is chimed to announce Evensong around 5:00 pm each day, giving a carillon of 35 bells in total (three chromatic octaves). The new bells were cast at the Loughborough Bell Foundry of
Shrines
When
The tomb of
On 9 November 2022
Consulting architects
The Minster's consulting architects (since 1965 called "Surveyors of the Fabric" – see Cant and Aylmer, York Minster, p. 554) have included the following:
- G. E. Street(1868–1881)
- G. F. Bodley(1882–1907)
- Walter Tapper (1908–1935)
- Sir Charles Reed Peers (1935–1946)
- Sir Albert Edward Richardson(1946–1964)
- Bernard Feilden (1964–1977)
- Charles Brown (1977–1995)
- James Simpson c. 1995
- Andrew Arrol ( –2020)
- Oliver Caroe (2020– )
Vaults
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Chancel
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South transept
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North transept
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Chapter house
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Nave
Organ
The fire of 1829 destroyed the organ and the basis of the present organ dates from 1832, when Elliot and Hill constructed a new instrument. This organ was reconstructed in 1859 by William Hill and Sons. The case remained intact, but the organ was mechanically new, retaining the largest pipes of the former instrument.
In 1903, J. W. Walker and Sons built a new instrument in the same case. They retained several registers from the previous instrument.
Some work was undertaken in 1918 by Harrison & Harrison when the Tuba Mirabilis was added and the Great chorus revised. The same firm rebuilt this Walker-Harrison instrument in 1931 when a new console and electro-pneumatic action were added together with four new stops. The smaller solo tubas were enclosed in the solo box. In 1960, J. W. Walker & Sons restored the actions, lowered wind pressures and introduced mutations and higher chorus work in the spirit of the neo-classical movement. They cleaned the organ in 1982.
The fire of 1984 affected the organ but not irreparably; the damage hastened the time for a major restoration, which was begun in 1991 and finished two years later by Principal Pipe Organs of York, under the direction of their founder, Geoffrey Coffin, who had at one time been assistant organist at the Minster.[71]
In 2018, a £2 million project to refurbish the current organ was announced. The project took two years for its completion in March 2021 and saw nearly all of its 5,403 pipes removed and taken to organ specialists Harrison & Harrison in Durham.[72][73]
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The organ on the choir screen
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The choir
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The crypt
Organists
The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, the job description roughly equates to that of
Among the notable organists of York Minster are four members of the Camidge family, who served as the cathedral's organists for over 100 years, and a number of composers including John Naylor, T. Tertius Noble, Edward Bairstow, Francis Jackson, and Philip Moore.
Dean and chapter
As of 20th January 2024:
- Dean – Dominic Barrington (since 12 November 2022 installation)[74]
- Pastor – Timothy Goode (since 9 September 2023 installation)[75]
- Missioner – Maggie McLean (since 17 November 2019 installation)[76]
- Precentor – Victoria Johnson (from 11 January 2020)[77]
- Chancellor – vacant since 31 August 2020[78]
Burials
- Bosa of York, Bishop of York and Saint (died c. 705)
- Eanbald, Archbishop (780–796)
- Osbald, King of Northumbria (died 799)
- Guthred Hardacnutson, King of Northumbria (died 895)
- Tostig Godwinson, brother of King Harold II (both died in separate battles in 1066)
- Ealdred, Archbishop (1061–1069)
- Thomas of Bayeux, Archbishop (1070–1100)
- Gerard, Archbishop (1100–1108)
- Thomas II of York, Archbishop (1108–1114)
- William of York, Archbishop (1141–1147, 1153–1154)
- Henry Murdac, Archbishop (1147–1153)
- Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Archbishop (1154–1181)
- Walter de Gray, Archbishop (1216–1255)
- Sewal de Bovil, Dean and Archbishop (1256–1258)
- Godfrey Ludham, Archbishop (1258–1265)
- William Langton, Archbishop (1265)
- Walter Giffard, Archbishop (1266–1279)
- John le Romeyn, Archbishop (1286–1296)
- Henry of Newark, Archbishop (1296–1299)
- William Greenfield, Archbishop (1306–1315)
- William of Hatfield, infant son of Edward III (1337)
- William Melton, Archbishop (1317–1340)
- William Zouche, Archbishop (1342–1352)
- Henry Percy, soldier (1364–1403)
- Richard le Scrope, Archbishop (1398–1405)
- Henry Bowet, Archbishop (1407–1423)
- Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop (1480–1500)
- Thomas Savage, Archbishop (1501–1507)
- Hugh Ashton, Archdeacon of York (died 1522)
- John Piers, Archbishop (1589–1594)
- George Meriton, Dean of York (1579–1624)
- Thomas Danby (MP) (1610–1660)
- Richard Neile, Archbishop (1631–1640)
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (1730–1782)
- John Farr Abbott, barrister (1756–1794)
Astronomical clock
The
Illuminations
In November 2002, York Minster was illuminated in colour, devised by York-born Mark Brayshaw, for the first time in its history. The occasion was televised live on the BBC1 Look North programme. Similar illuminations have been projected over the Christmas period in subsequent years.
York Minster was also artistically illuminated on 5 November 2005, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the foiling of York-born Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot. This was done by Patrice Warrener using his unique "chromolithe" technique with which he 'paints' with light, picking out sculpted architectural details.
In October 2010, York Minster's south transept was selected for "Rose", a son et lumiere created by international artists Ross Ashton and Karen Monid which lit up the entire exterior of the south transept of the minster and illuminated the Rose Window. There were also satellite illuminate events in Dean's Park.
York Mystery Plays
In 2000, the Dean and Chapter allowed the York
See also
- Archbishop's Palace, Bishopthorpe
- Early Gothic architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England
- English Gothic stained glass windows
- List of Gothic Cathedrals in Europe
- Cathedral diagram
- Dean of York
- History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes
- The Minster School, York (now closed)
- Old Palace, York: Minster Library and Archives
- York Minster Police
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External links
- York Minster (official site)
- York Minster information on the history of York Minster and photographs
- Independent travel guide to York Minster with pictures
- York Minster information and pictures Archived 3 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- York Minster Information and Images www.theminsteryork.co.uk[permanent dead link]
- History of York – the Minster theme on the city's history website
- Photo essay on interior of York Minster
- VR York Tour Archived 14 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine Virtual Tour of York Minster – view the interior and exterior of the Minster in York
- York Minster, QuickTime image
- Photos Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- A history of the choristers of York Minster
- The Guardian Christmas illuminations
- The Cathedral Church of York, 1899, by A. Clutton-Brock, from Project Gutenberg
- Photos and plans
- Sound of the chime and photography of York Minster
- Rose—Illuminating York by Ross Ashton & Karen Monid – "son et lumiere" images.