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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 second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the mother church for the diocese of York and the province of York. [5]
In 1226, Archbishop Walter de Gray bought the manor house at what was then St. Andrewthorpe and gave it to the Dean and Chapter of York Minster. Since then, the village became known as Bishopthorpe. [2] In 1241 he built a Manor House and Chapel on the site. A red brick north wing was built in the fifteenth century and the Gatehouse was built in ...
It houses York Minster’s library and archives as well as the Collections Department and conservation studio. Its name is a new one and renders homage to the part of the building that used to be the chapel of the Archbishop of York , which was built in the 13th century.
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The street runs north-east from the junction of Blake Street, Museum Street and St Leonard's Place, to the front of York Minster, where Petergate, Minster Yard and Precentor's Court meet. [1] [4] It is the main approach to York Minster for visitors arriving from York railway station. [4] Almost all the buildings on the street are listed.
A model of York Minster made out of 80,000 matchsticks has been sold to a toy shop, with the money donated to charity. Clive Holmes, 87, from Durham, spent two years fashioning his 6ft (1.8m) long ...
The street may have originated as the courtyard of the headquarters building of Roman Eboracum.In the 8th-century text The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, a square between the royal palace and York Minster was mentioned, which has been tentatively identified with Minster Yard; however, in the 10th century, the area was covered by a cemetery associated with the minster.
The first Treasurer for York Minster was appointed in 1091 when the office was established by Archbishop of York Thomas of Bayeux, but all that remains of his original house is an external wall which forms part of Grays Court and sections of 12th-century masonry in the present Treasurer's House for which it is uncertain whether they are in-situ or have been reused.