Hi everyone, my hubby and I had such a good weekend! We
relaxed and took it easy for the most part but we also made a day trip to
Beverley on Saturday morning. We have been there a few times before as it’s
just a few minutes train ride away from Hull and it’s such a pretty little town
to go visit! We have wanted to go back for a day for the last few weeks but
something else always came up on the weekends until this weekend.
We got to the train station quite early and made it into
Beverley by 9:30. The only plan I had for the day was to go on the Beverley
Minster roof tour. My hubby and I have been into the Beverley minster a
few times and I always enjoy going again because it’s such a beautiful building
with so much history and detail! That’s one thing I always try to do when I go
to a new town in the UK, is visit the minsters, cathedrals or castles! Soon
followed by museums or art galleries but that depends on what they have on
display inside. Anywho, we killed a few hours by walking around and doing a bit
of shopping before the roof tour started and then headed to the minster.
The tour included a lot of history on the minster, here are a few points: it was
built for St John of Beverley whose tomb is still in the centre of the church
and whose remains attracted pilgrims from a wide area. The remains were
actually lost during the reformation but later rediscovered during a floor renovation. The minster was built on marshlands, some of
the detail at the foot of the Font actually depicts beavers feet, from Beaver
Lake, which later turned into the name Beverley as it’s known today. The town
was built around the church instead of the opposite which is the norm. The west end towers are identical to those of Westminster Abbey, whose design was heavily inspired/or copied by Beverley Minster. The central tower of the minster was in danger of collapse in the 18th Century and has never been replaced and the space within the tower is now used as a workshop, which houses one of the only surviving still functional treadwheels and is used to hoist building materials into the workshop! Our guide told us that if we returned on Monday we would get to see it in action.
Some of the wood in the church was carved by Robert Thompson also known as the mouseman of Kilburn, he also did some work in St. Marys which is also in Beverley and I see Hull Holy Trinity Church also has a few pieces by him, I think I will have to go back to find those mice!
Anyway, I really enjoyed the tour and the history of the building, my husband and I would recommend it to anyone!
The rest of our weekend was spent watching Dr. Who (which we recently got into, I know, we are behind the times!) and the rugby.
xo, Kristy
No comments:
Post a Comment