Minster Church Of St Peter And St Paul And Chapter House

Nave finished c1300 with west front completed between 1306 and 1311.

Choir, also often referred to as chancel, completed between 1320-1340.

Chapter house begun 1340-49, and recommenced after a long intermission in 1380, with the addition in the early C15 of a ground-floor chapel or vestry and its vestibule, 2 chambers above and an access stair.

Tower begun late C14, with upper stage of late C15.

of £10 by Henry de Snaith, Canon of Howden, Lincoln and Beverley for Chapter House in 1380

of £40 by Walter Skirlaugh, Bishop of Durham for tower in 1406.

The nave is flanked by gableted buttresses with 2-light blind arcading with figures under canopies.

Part of Norman corbel table reset in north-west wall of arcade.

Decorated octagonal font with ogee gables and finials.

A modern cover, symbolising the flames of Pentecost, was added to the decorated, octagonal font in the 1950s.

© David Dixon

2 medieval parish chests to north aisle.

Fine C20 pulpit with richly carved sounding board by Elwell of Beverley.

Flanking pairs of statue niches containing contemporary figures and balustrade above with open trefoiled lights above doorway and blind trefoiled lights above niches.

Screens in transepts are part of original pulpitum with 4-centred-arched doors flanked by statue niches containing figures originally in east wall of choir.

South transept: C14 statue of the Virgin

brass to a knight of 1480

chest tomb with shields and beasts heads, now supporting late C13 statue.

North transept: royal arms of 1718.

Saltmarshe Chapel: decorated tomb recess with ogee arch and finial flanked by statue niches with nodding ogees, containing recumbent figures of a knight, possibly Sir John Metham (d1311) and his lady, not original to the recess.

Chest tomb in centre has trefoiled panels to sides containing figures, and supports recumbent knight in chain mail, possibly Sir Peter Saltmarshe (d1338).