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York
Minster
York Minster is a cathedral in York, England and is one of the largest
of its kind in Northern Europe. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of
York, the second-highest office of the Church of England and is the cathedral
for the Diocese of York; it is run by a dean and chapter under the Dean of
York. The formal title of York Minster is "The Cathedral and
Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York". The title "minster"
is attributed to churches established in the Anglo Saxon period as missionary
teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. Services in the
minster are sometimes regarded as on the High Church or Anglo-Catholic end of
the Anglican continuum.
The minster has a very wide Decorated Gothic
nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic choir and east end and Early
English north and south transepts. The nave contains the West Window,
constructed in 1338, and over the Lady Chapel in the east end is the Great East
Window, (finished in 1408), the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in
the world. In the north transept is the Five Sisters Window, each lancet being
over 16 metres (52 ft) high. The south transept contains a famous rose window.
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