York Minster

York Minster
627 - 1472
Architecture

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Some of the cathedral’s most remarkable features are the stained glass windows, and especially the Great East Window which was completed in 1408. This is considered to be the largest medieval stained glass window in the world. The other remarkable window is referred to as the Five Sisters Window  each sectionof which  is 53 feet high. With a length of 524.5 feet it’s also the second-largest Gothic church in northern Europe.

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York Minster is officially known as the “Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York” and is the cathedral of the city of York in the northeast of England. The church on the site was originally founded in the year 627 and the current magnificent Gothic structure was completed in the year 1472, the year that church was consecrated.