TouchScreenTravels

Our Touch, your Travels…

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York Minster Choir

The final touch

This is STAGE 5 of the The Minster in-2-Hours Itinerary.

The eastern part of the minster, beyond the screen, was completed in 1472. It was the last part to be built.

The choir is in the Perpendicular style, a later gothic style. (Stronger vertical lines than the more flamboyant Decorated Gothic, sometimes seen as a reaction to the Black Death which killed around a third of England's population in 1348 to 1349.)

The choir (sometimes "quire") is the area in front of the high altar. The cathedral choir sings here, seated along the side.

Enter the choir from the nave through the screen.

The screen itself is decorated with the carvings of the Kings of England.

Inside the choir there is a statue to King Edwin of Northumbria, who was baptised in the first church on the site in 627.

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The Minster In-2-Hours

York's Greatest Building from every angle

Images by , Jules & Jenny