Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . York Cathedral write the conversion ofthe Minster to the purposes of a musical festival is toopainful a subject to be touched. The fire of 1829 was by many considered a judgment for the desecration of the Minster by the holding of festivals, and the view is expressed in a poem by Mary A. Dawson. Five years after the last festival, on the eveningNave mFlames, of the 20th of May, 1840, the nave was destroyed by fire through the negligence of a workman engaged in repairing th
Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . York Cathedral write the conversion ofthe Minster to the purposes of a musical festival is toopainful a subject to be touched. The fire of 1829 was by many considered a judgment for the desecration of the Minster by the holding of festivals, and the view is expressed in a poem by Mary A. Dawson. Five years after the last festival, on the eveningNave mFlames, of the 20th of May, 1840, the nave was destroyed by fire through the negligence of a workman engaged in repairing the clock, who left a candle burning in the south-west tower. About ten oclock the scene inside the nave was at once awful and terrific, the red glare of the conflagration as it cast its vivid light down the long aisles, the thundering noise occasioned by the falling at short intervals of the bells, and the large masses of burning timber sending up clouds of sparks and burning pieces of wood, was truly appalling. When the great bell fell, the noise resembled thunder, and the supposition, for the moment, was entertained. THE NAVE—FIRE. 57 that the tower itself had fallen. The fire extended to the roof of the nave, from which the lead poured down in a molten state, and the nave floor might be compared to one complete sheet of lava. About twelve oclock the whole of the nave roof had fallen in, the immense beams of timber which had spanned the nave came down with tremendous crashes, and the blaze which succeeded each fall brilliantly illuminated the scene. The devouring element had now reached the central tower, which once more proved anThe Buins. , , , , impassable barrier. At one oclock the south-western tower and the nave were reduced to mere shells. The damage was restored under the direction of Restoration, ]^j^,^ Sidney Smirke, architect, at a cost of about £23,000, and the nave was re-opened on July7th, 1844. THE DESIGN. Ou the whole, the nave of York, from the iiiicoinmon
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