Ripon Minster (cathedral Church Of St Peter And Wilfrid)

In 1604 the College was re-founded by James I with a slightly different organisation (a Dean, a sub-Dean, and non-territorial prebendaries).

It was dissolved during the Commonwealth, but re-founded again in 1660.

but it is substantially the church of mediaeval college.

Crypt Anglo-Saxon.

Chapter House perhaps Norman, although the vaulting looks C13.

Although Archbishop Roger's work at York is late Norman, here it is in a fully developed and sophisticated early Gothic style.

Eastern bays of choir, including sumptuous sedilia , probably early C14.

Library also C14.

South side of western bays of choir altered in C15.

Pulpitum also C15.

Nave drastically altered and aisles added in early C16

The works in 1514 and again in 1520-1 were in the charge of Christopner Scure, previously master mason at Durham.

In 1615 the spire on the crossing tower collapsed

in 1664 the spires on the 2 western towers were taken down.

The outstanding furnishings are the choir stalls and misericords in the Nantwich- Manchester-Lancaster style of the late C15

2 dates, 1489 and 1494.

Also an outstanding pulpit of 1913 by Harry Wilson in an early Art Deco manner.

Designed in the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau styles, made of bronze on marble columns in 1913.

© Martin Dawes

The outstanding monument is that to William Weddell by Joseph Nollekens.

Many other good though lesser monuments, including an unusual wall monument of plaster to Mrs Ann Hutchinson Many fine tomb slabs.