Central Tower: 235 feet (72 m)[3] Western Towers: 196 feet (60 m)[3]
Bells
36
Administration
Province
York
Diocese
York (since 314)
Clergy
Archbishop
Stephen Cottrell
Dean
Dominic Barrington
Precentor
Victoria Johnson
Canon(s)
1 vacancy
Canon Pastor
Timothy Goode
Canon Missioner
Maggie McLean
Archdeacon
Samantha Rushton
Laity
Director of music
Robert Sharpe
Business manager
David Colthup (Chapter Steward)
Scheduled monument
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 Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. The minster is the seat of the archbishop of York, the third-highest office of the Church of England, and is the mother church for the diocese of York and the province of York.[5] It is administered by its dean and chapter. The minster is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
The first record of a church on the site dates to 627; the title "minster" also dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, originally denoting a missionary teaching church and now an honorific.[6] The minster undercroft contains re-used fabric of c. 1160, but the bulk of the building was constructed between 1220 and 1472. It consists of Early English Gothic north and south transepts, a Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, and a Perpendicular Gothic eastern arm and central tower.
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]
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^ abcdeBigland, John (1815). Yorkshire; or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive of That County. London. p. 211. OCLC 19912009. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
^ abc"York Minster". York Minster. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
^"York Minster a Medieval Cathedral" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
^"York Minster FAQs". York Minster. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
^Pesvner, Nikolaus; Metcalf, Priscilla (2005). The Cathedrals of England: The North and East Anglia. London: The Folio Society. pp. 294–95, 303.
^"Work Minster Fact Sheets: The Five Sisters Window" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
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