Beverley Minster in the sunshine

Went in to Beverley to see Hamnet earlier in the week (well worth a watch!) and parked at the top of the multistorey carpark with a view over the Minster. The sun was shining so I took a shot!

Just imagine how impressive that would have been with just wattle and daub hovels around it (no car parks!). These religious nutters certainly recognised power and how to impress the plebs!

Beverley Minster – Green Men, Musicians & pagan medieval masonry, treadmills and wonder.

Beverley Minster is a beautiful medieval church. The early church collapsed and this one was started in 1220 and took two hundred years to build. So far so good.

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They were gay old times back then. Old time religion was fun. The stone masons had a sense of humour. All around the place you can find evidence of the pagan religion still showing through. The Green Men peer down at you through the foliage. IMG_2072 IMG_2074 IMG_2075 IMG_2076 IMG_2077

There were also a lot of musical instruments. Church was a bit of a knees-up and kicking your heels. They even had sheep and cattle in the place!IMG_2080 IMG_2081

The stain glass is impressive.

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We went up into the roof space where they have the original treadmill that they used to raise the stones in its building – and it still works!

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You can look down through the hole that the stones were brought up through. IMG_2121 IMG_2132

This is looking down through the hole at the organ below – very optical illusionary.

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