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The Minster Church of St John

The Minster Church Of St John

Beverley

East Riding of Yorkshire

High altar dedicated 1260.

Architectural Features

Nave c1308-1350.

North porch and west front c1390-1420.

C13 section has prominent shafted buttresses with flyers.

Gabled entrance flanked by niches for figures of saints.

C14 work continued in similar style with slight changes in details and traceried windows.

Anglo Saxon stone seat known as 'Frith Stool'.

Choir stalls of c1520 with 68 carved misericords.

Late C12 Frosterley marble font with cover of 1713.

Many fine monuments including tomb chest of Henry Percy of 1489

others of C17-C19.

'Beverley Minster in Its 13th Century Context' Journal of Society of Architectural Historians XLIII 1984, 209-224.

National Monument Register Photograph.