York Minster, the West Front and Nave.

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
YORK

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
ARCHI-EPISCOPAL SEE

BY

A. CLUTTON-BROCK

WITH FORTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1899

W.H. WHITE AND CO. LTD.
RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH

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GENERAL PREFACE

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to thegreat English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-booksat a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a workcompiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to thestudent of Archaeology and History, and yet not too technical inlanguage for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each casewould be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the generalsources of information which have been almost invariably found usefulare:—(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially inquestions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2)the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in theTransactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies; (3) theimportant documents made accessible in the series issued by the Masterof the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on theEnglish Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks tothe Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to which thereader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially inreference to the histories of the respective sees.

GLEESON WHITE.
EDWARD F. STRANGE.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

I have usually followed Professor Willis in his account of the Minster,and my obligations to his excellent works are general and continuous.

Professor Willis made careful and extensive observations of the Cryptand other parts of the Minster during the restoration, which gave himopportunities for investigation now impossible. He also brought to theseobservations a learning and sagacity probably greater than those of anyother writer on English Gothic Architecture, and his little book remainsthe standard work on the history of the Minster.

I regret that I have been unable to agree with several of the theoriesof that most enthusiastic and diligent writer, Mr John Browne, or evento discuss them as I should have liked; but his books must always be ofgreat value to every one interested in the history of York. I am alsoindebted to Canon Raine's excellent works and compilations; to MrWinston for his remarks on the glass in the Minster; and to ProfessorFreeman for his interesting criticisms of the fabric generally.

A.C.-B.

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