Stu's Rusty Bucket

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

The Minster

Yesterday I took joy down to York and to the Minster. York is a really beautiful place and we had a great time. The minster is really old, first it was the site of a roman garrison, an old roman bassilica. On top of that around 1100ad the normans came and built the first of the cathedrals, later the larger minster was built expanding the norman minster into the huuge stone behemoth that the current York Minster is…

So we went around the minster, down into the crypt etc. Later that evening we came back to Evensong, which they do in an old traditional catholic way. Which is kinda odd since England converted all the old catholic churches to Church of England and protestantism, and York Minster is a Church of England chuch, not a catholic church…

Anyway…