Shop windows in the York Minster, Gothic cathedral of York to the north of England
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In your visit to the Cathedral Minster of York, to the north of England, one of the aspects that more will attract attention of you there are his spectacular shop windows of medieval origin. In fact, the Cathedral of York is assembled by the biggest set of shop windows of medieval origin of the whole England.
As you gain access to the Cathedral of York for his south front, straight to the transept, it will be precisely the shop window that is in the opposite side, in the north front of the transept, which must center your attention.
It is a question of the shop window known as Five Sisters by the set who form his five highest and narrow elongated windows, which are originals, since they date of the year 1250 and are the most ancient of the Gothic Cathedral of York.
Shop windows of the entry to the central ship of the Cathedral York Minster to the north of England
On the door of access to the central ship of the Cathedral of York of the north front, which has two towers, there is a big rose window of the year 1339, which in his moment was that of major glazed surface of the Gothic cathedral.
But years later, in 1408, in the opposite side of the central ship, on the Chapel of the Virgin (Lady Chapel), a shop window of even major size got up.
Shop window of Lady Chapel in the Cathedral York Minster to the north of England
Apart from these principal shop windows of the Cathedral of York, in your visit you have to concentrate on other shop windows placed in central ship, like the so called Window of the Peregrinaje, of 1312, that shows diverse grotesque scenes.
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