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Beverley Minster, mother church to St Mary's, Beverley
A view from the South-West
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Minster - from the SW

A half-mile south of St Mary's, the Minster is built from an oolitic limestone which is fairly coarse in texture and brownish in colour, and likely to have originated in workings near North and South Cave, a few miles to the SW of Beverley.

However, after the collapse of the tower in 1213, stone from Tadcaster, a magnesian limestone, was used for all but areas of plain walling, when the local stone from North and South Cave was used.

One of the pillars in the North Transept still leans to the north by a few degrees.

The tower is in Perpendicular style (c. 1220-1260), the nave is Decorated (c. 1308-1349), and the Transepts and Chancel and beyond are Early English (c.1220-1260).

Last modified: 11 June, 2002