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Title: Handbook to the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Benson, George, architect
Subjects: York Minster
Publisher: York, B. Johnson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Curvilinear).—From the pedimented windowsto the roof. Perpendicular.—The towers above the roof. THE DESIGN. This fair poem wrought in stone. The western front (see frontispiece) is a beautiful archi-tectural composition, the design consisting of two uniformembattled and pinnacled towers carried considerably abovethe low pitched embattled gable of the central portion.Deep right angled buttresses at the corners of the towersaccentuate the height and solidity, also emphasize their separation from the central part with its largeThe Central eight-light window, filled with charming flowing tracery which could not be improved upon did wehunt France through from end to end (Mrs. Van Rensselaer).The centre of the tracery is a heart—the Heart of Yorkshire—for the Minster is loved by all Yorkshire folk. Below thewindow is the principal entrance (Plate II) divided by aclustered pier, supporting minor arches and a circle filled withtracery, the whole enclosed within a deep recessed moulded
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THE WESTERN FRONT. 10 Sculpture ^^^^ enriched with sculpture of exquisite delicacy ^dmnand in which the history of Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel is told in sixteen niches, forming an appropriate opening to the monumental Bible of York. A crocketted pediment, with the ball flower, the charac-teristic ornament of the Decorated style, enclosing fiveniches, springs from the arch and rises amidst the canopiedpanelling of the spandril above the window cill.^^with ^^ The central niche contains the seated figure ofIdinlte/. ^ archbishop holding a model of the west frontin his hands, probably John le Eomaine whobegan the nave in 1291, and in the niches on either side ofthe pediment are mailed figures (reworked) of aVcmisSur. ^^^^^ ^^^ ^ Vavasour, bearing blocks of woodand stone signifying their donations to thebuilding. Their shields adjoin—Percy, a lion rampant, andVavasour, a fesse dancette. Throned at the glorious portal, And carved in uudyiiig stone,Mitred, and crowned, and i

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