![]() ![]() The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfrid ascended to the see of York. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. The first recorded church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Tradition speaks of 28 British bishops, one for each of the greater British cities, over whom presided the Archbishops of London, York and Caerleon-on-Usk. According to Bede missionaries were sent from Rome by Eleutherius at the request of the chieftain Lucius of Britain in AD 180 to settle controverted points of differences as to Eastern and Western ceremonials which were disturbing the church. However there is circumstantial evidence pointing to much earlier Christian involvement. York has had a verifiable Christian presence from the fourth century. The south transept contains a famous rose window. In the north transept is the Five Sisters Window, each lancet being over 16 metres (52 ft) high. The nave contains the West Window, constructed in 1338, and over the Lady Chapel in the east end is the Great East Window, (finished in 1408), the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world. The minster has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic choir and east end and Early English north and south transepts. Services in the minster are sometimes regarded as on the High Church or Anglo-Catholic end of the Anglican continuum. The title " minster" is attributed to churches established in the Anglo Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. The formal title of York Minster is "The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York". The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England and is the cathedral for the Diocese of York it is run by a dean and chapter under the Dean of York. York Minster is a cathedral in York, England and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. Richard Shephard ( Director of development and Chamberlain)
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