. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . BEVERLEY MINSTER. Beverley was the ancient capital of the East Riding. It stands at thefoot of the York wolds, and has a staid, respectable aspect, as if awareof its claims to consideration. The name recalls the melancholy historyof the unfortunate Constance de Beverley, in Sir Walter Scotts poem of Marmion. It was one of the three religious centres of Yorkshire, theothers being Ripon and York. The Minster is next in rank to YorkCathedral among the ecclesiastical edifices of the c
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . BEVERLEY MINSTER. Beverley was the ancient capital of the East Riding. It stands at thefoot of the York wolds, and has a staid, respectable aspect, as if awareof its claims to consideration. The name recalls the melancholy historyof the unfortunate Constance de Beverley, in Sir Walter Scotts poem of Marmion. It was one of the three religious centres of Yorkshire, theothers being Ripon and York. The Minster is next in rank to YorkCathedral among the ecclesiastical edifices of the county. The originalbuilding was founded, or, as some say, enlarged and beautified, at thebeginning of the eighth century by St. John of Beverley. Of the date ofthe erection of the present Minster there is no record. The oldest parts. belong to the thirteenth century: these include the east end, with portionsof the nave, the remainder being of the Decorated English style. The northporch, the three western windows in the north aisle of the nave, and thewest front are Perpendicular. The north porch is, says Mr. Rickman, as a panelled front, perhaps unequalled. The door has a double canopy,the inner an ogee, and the outer a triangle, with beautiful crockets andtracery, and is flanked by fine buttresses, breaking into niches, and thespace above the canopy to the cornice is panelled. The battlement is com-posed of rich niches, and the buttresses crowned by a group of four pin-nacles. What the west front of York is to the Decorated style this is tothe Perpendicular. Like York Minster, there is a large west window to thenave, and there are two battlement towers 200 feet high for the end of theaisles, each of which has large and small pinnacles. From the summit of thesetowers a magnificent view may be enjoyed over the rich
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