THERE are many fine portraits in the York’s Mansion House, but one showing a man in Georgian attire with his right hand resting on two volumes of a book, is of particular interest. The portrait ...

Roughly the same age as the Five Sisters window in the Minster, the thousands of pieces of broken pots have come from archaeological digs in Yorkshire and are cared for by the York Museums Trust.

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title ... sightseeing in York than from the top of the minster’s medieval central tower, the highest ...

It is undoubtedly ... seeing the Minster without some part of it covered in scaffolding and safety netting? In the 1960s and 1970s the cathedral was underpinned to stop the Central Tower collapsing.

“If you look back just five years ... is being provided by the York Minster Fund, which was established in 1967 by the Earl of Scarbrough to save the 197ft Central Tower after surveys revealed ...

It took four years and £2.25m to repair the damage caused by the fire at York Minster York's divisional ... had almost spread through to the central tower." It became clear the roof was beyond ...