700 year old ursine. The last English bear and last living member of the Royal menagerie. Resides as a crown pensioner in the Tower London.
The Tower of London
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The sub transepts @ York Minster, are 2 great windows one dedicated to local saint William and opposite dedicated to st. Cuthbert the greatest of the northern saints. At present the Cuthbert window is being restored so several panels can be examined at group level.
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A sub transept is a smaller transept further east than the main transepts- a uniquely English feature we find them at Salisbury, Lincoln & here at York, where they do not stick out from the choir but raise up through the vaults.
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The great east window, York Minster. Completed 1408. John Thornton of Coventry painted the entire window on themes suggested by the Dean and Chapter. He was paid £46 plus an extra £10 on completion
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York has no painted masterpieces or sculptures in its galleries but it does have the largest piece of medieval stained glass in the world. John Thornton’s east window in the Minster showing the beginning & the end of the world , is the city’s great masterpiece.
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The elaborately carved canopies of the chapter house. York. Leaves, human faces, beasts. This all gives the lie to the notion that medieval artists didn’t look at nature. There is a reason that this period of British gothic is called the ‘decorated’
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‘As the rose is the flower of flowers, so this is the house of houses’ a proud declaration painted in the doorway ( probably of medieval origin) of York Minster - 13thc
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The L shaped or dog legged vestibule to the chapter house York Minster. Again the scale of York is several times greater than most English cathedrals
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The interior of the chapter house of York Minster. Unlike the other comparable chapter house there is no central pillar supporting the vault- the vault however is of wood. Edward l held a parliament here in 1296
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Octagon chapter houses are a uniquely British architectural form. Westminster, wells, Salisbury, Southwell and here at York. This building of the 1280s is the largest of them all- at York the builders always wanted the biggest in England
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Our Lady’s row, Goodramgate, York. The oldest complete domestic buildings in the city. Dating to the 14thc they were built as a speculative venture by Holy Trinity church next door.
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Modern shrine and altar of St William of York, who was canonised 800 years ago this year. His remaining bones still rest in a Roman sarcophagus- The medieval shrine once behind the high altar only remains as fragments
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