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Dimensions. 16.31 m × 1.56 m (642 in × 61 in) Location. York, England. York Minster's Five Sisters window contains the largest expanse of 13th century grisaille glass in the world. [1] It was built c.1250–1260 and is located in the north wall of the north transept of York Minster. The window features in the Guinness Book of Records as "the ...
The minster is the seat of the archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the mother church for the diocese of York and the province of York. [5] It is administered by its dean and chapter. The minster is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
The upper section of the Jesse Tree window at Chartres Cathedral showing Jesus at the apex and Mary below him The fragment of a Jesse Tree window from York Minster, which is probably the oldest panel of stained glass in England (c. 1170) Two panels, all that remain, of a Jesse Tree window of the late 12th or early 13th century, Canterbury ...
53°58′N1°05′W / 53.96°N 1.08°W /. York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. It is the county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a minster, castle, and city walls.
Thornton's depiction of St John the Baptist, from the Great East Window of York Minster, showing his characteristic treatment of faces. John Thornton of Coventry ( fl. 1405–1433) was a master glazier and stained glass artist active in England during the 15th century. The output of his workshop includes some of the finest English medieval glass.
The Duchess of York had earlier that day unveiled the Five Sisters window in York Minster, dedicated to "women of the Empire" killed in the First World War. [ 1 ] Of Portland stone construction, the memorial is in the form of a 33-foot (10-metre) high, lozenge-shaped shaft with short, chamfered arms, moulded where they meet the shaft to form a ...
St Crux, Pavement. St Crux in about 1843. St Crux, (literally Holy Cross), was the largest medieval parish church in York after its rebuilding in 1424, and a brick tower was added in 1697. It was closed around 1880 after becoming unsafe, and attempts to raise sufficient funds to rebuild it were unsuccessful.
The history of York, England, as a city dates to the beginning of the first millennium AD but archaeological evidence for the presence of people in the region of York dates back much further to between 8000 and 7000 BC. As York was a town in Roman times, its Celtic name is recorded in Roman sources (as Eboracum and Eburacum); after 400, Angles ...