Beverley Minster

The Beverley Minster in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire is a former monastery church and since 1550 the church of the Anglican parish of St. John and St. Martin.

History

John of Beverley, Bishop of York, founded a monastery on the site of the present cathedral. When he died in Beverley 721, he was buried in a chapel of the former Saxon church. His worship and miracle cures that have been attributed to him, in 1037 led to the canonization. The Saxon church was followed by a Norman. When the pilgrims required a larger church was begun in the 13th century to the grave of St. John a new to build the present church. It is possible to distinguish three phases Gothic:

The main entrance of the 102 m long church, the "high gate - gate", is located approximately in the middle of the north side of the nave.

Equipment

  • The gate of the western entrance dates from the 18th century and shows the interior carved in wood, the four Evangelists. The draft of this gave Nicholas Hawksmoor.
  • In the western part of the south side of the nave there is a baptismal font that was created in 1170 from Frosterley marble and dates from the Romanesque predecessor church. The wooden canopy ( canopy ) over the basin was carved in the 18th century.
  • Two cast lead statues which originally stood at the entrance to the choir, are now placed as wooden replicas in the south aisle opposite the Highgate gate. They are the patron of the church of St. John and the Saxon King Athelstan, who is said to have richly rewarded by a victory over the Danes 937 the Church of St. John of gratefulness with privileges.
  • The grave of St. John, covered by a stone slab marked with an inscription in gold, is located in the center of the nave at its eastern end. To the left stands a pulpit from the 18th century; a reading desk is towards the south aisle.
  • The church houses a total of 70 medieval, partly damaged during the Reformation, and later restored depictions of musicians from stone and wood with 20 different instruments.
  • The main or communion altar in the transept dates from 1970.
  • The three chapels in the south transept are regimental bands of the East Yorkshire Regiment, who remember the dead of two world wars.
  • In the north transept of the souvenir and bookshop of Minsters is housed.
  • The choir consists of 68 choir stalls from the early 16th century; they are provided with carvings. Each seat has its own carved Misericordie. The canopies were installed in the 18th, the statues in the early 20th century. Left of the altar is the Anglo-Saxon " Frith Stool " ( 8th century; bishop's throne? ).
  • The choir stalls were presented with an organ built by John Snetzler in the West in 1769; the organ pipes carved in 1880 James Elwell of oak from designs by Gilbert Scott.
  • In the northern area of the choir can be found in the 1490 built Percy Chapel with the stone, figurines decorated Percy grave canopy, built from 1340 to 1349, a masterpiece of High Gothic. Here a lady was probably buried in the noble family of Percy.
  • In the rear choir could venerate the relics of St. John in the Middle Ages. Here 2004, new windows were installed and set up newer works of art. Only the east window are the ruins of medieval stained glass.
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