IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

BRITAIN: ENGLAND
BEVERLEY (MINSTER CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST)

© Alison Stones

Plans and Drawings
Dehio. Plate 427 Exterior Screen-sized Image	Dehio. Plate 427 Interior Screen-sized Image

EXTERIOR
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1971 Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1971 Screen-sized Image /  Large "Archive" Image	Adapted from Bond, Gothic Architecture, p 177 View from South Screen sized image/ Large "archive " image

INTERIOR
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1971 Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Adopted from BondEarly  Christian Architecture, p 317 65t Vault of Crossing

Furnishings
Adopted from Howard/Crossley Frontespiece Screen-sized image Stalls with wood-carving 14th century	Screen-sized iimage Choir Screen	Screen-sized image Sedilia Late 14th Century

Tombs
Screen-sized image Tomb of wife of one of the Percy's Either Lady Eleanor Percy, wife of  the First Lord Percy,  or Lady Idonea Percy Wife if the second Lord Percy (d 1365)
Screen-sized iimage Detail	Screen-sized image Detail	Adapted from Gardiner, p 187 Screen-sized image Detail

• Legendary founder was  the bishop  St. John of Beverley (d. 721, canonized 1037) whose relics are in this minster
• Church on the site damaged by fire in  20 October, 1188 (Macmahon, p. 8)
• The large tower fell in 1210's
• Present choir rebuilt ca 1220-60
• Nave rebuilt in early  14th century

Forster, J. Reay.Beverley Minster : a brief history. Hull : A. Brown, 1975

Hiatt, Charles,Beverley minster; an illustrated account of its history and fabric, London, G. Bell, 1898

Horrox, Rosemary.Beverley Minster : an illustrated history  Beverley : The Friends of Beverley Minster, 2000

MacMahon, K.A.. The pictorial history of Beverley Minster. London : Pitkin Pictorials, 1967.  NA971.B49 M1

Nolloth, Henry Edward Beverley and its Minster, London : Allen & Unwin, 1930

Strickland, Gladys Bragg.The medieval carvings of musicians in Beverley Minster 1995

Tanfield, Thomas R.Beverley Minster misericord seats  Beverley : Beverley Minster Parochial Church Council, 1980-1985?