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A view taken inside York Minster looking straight up the 235 foot central tower. One of three towers at the minster this one was built between 1407 and 1472.
It is hard to comprehend the scale and content so to me looking straight up the tower gives an abstract impression.
It was built over 250 years, between 1220 and 1472. As the natural centre of the Church in the North, the Minster has often played an important role in great national affairs - not least during the turbulent years of the Reformation and the Civil War.
Sinners are thrown into a boiling vat by demons as part of their eternal torment in hell.
From the original 11th Century Norman cathedral, now in the Minster Crypt
York Minster is full of a great number of stone carvings and graves. Here's one of Sir William Ingram and his wife Catherine. Sir William was a merchant and passed away in 1623 . I assume he must have been well connected or filthy rich to have been able to afford a tomb within the minster.
Is it just me, or does this couple look as though they have walked off the set of Blackadder?
With sunlight making its way through the 800 year old stained glass of the Chapter House in York Minster we see some odd looking illumination on one of the numerous gargoyles.
In the dark recesses of York Minster an obvious shaft of light from one of its many glorious stained glass windows honed in on this memorial. This is a chap I have never heard of, Henry Medley who rose through the ranks to become Vice Admiral and Commander in chief of the British Mediterranean fleet. He died on active service in 1747.
Inside the 'Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York'. aka York Minster...a 'must see' if you ever find yourselves in York!!
texture thanks to renquedochan.
A wren picking at a cobweb, a jay burying an acorn, magpies, doves, hawks, and other birds in York Minster show how mediaeval glass painters, like carvers of misericords and grotesques, were very fond of earthy, humorous, even profane subjects.