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Beverley Minster, mother church to St Mary's, Beverley
The West Front
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Minster - The West Front

Minster - The West Front(larger image unavailable)

The West Front is perpendicular in style (c. 1390-1490). The towers were built between 1380-1490 and are part of a building programme starting some 150 years earlier.

Harvey has claimed that it "excelled almost everything done at the cathedrals"

It has been used as a model for other twin towers, as at All Souls' College in Oxford, and the towers added by Hawksmoor (who worked with Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanburgh) to the West Front of Westminster Abbey.

Last modified: 11 June, 2002