York Minster Timeline
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York Minster
Timeline
 York
Minster costs twenty thousand pounds a day to run. Our ten pound entry
seems very small.
 AD71 The
Romans establish a legionary fortress of Eboracum. The Principia, or
headquarters, constructed on this site.
306 Constantine proclaimed Emperor of the West in
York.
627 The first Minster built for the baptism of
Edwin, King of Northumbria, by Bishop Paulinus. The exact site of this building
is unknown.
1080
Work begins on the Norman Cathedral of Thomas of Bayeux.
 1154
Death of Archbishop William Fitzherbert, later canonised as St William of York in 1227.
1160
Archbishop Roger de Pont l’Eveque extends the cathedral with a new eastern
arm.
 1220 Archbishop
Walter de Gray begins rebuilding of South Transept in Early English
Gothic Style. Massive rebuilding works follow – dates circa.
 1253 North
Transept completed.
   1290 Chapter
House completed.
 1338 Nave
completed
 1373 Lady
Chapel completed
 1420 East
End completed
1465
Central Tower completed
1472
Minster consecrated
1534
Church of England separates from Rome
1650-60 No Archbishop, Dean or
Chapter during the Commonwealth period.
 1738 ‘Burlington’
interior pavement completed.
1829
Jonathan Martin deliberately starts a fire that destroys East End roof, Organ
and Quire woodwork.
1840
Nave roof and bell towers damaged by fire.
 1845 ‘Great
Peter’, a ten ton bell, hung in the North West Tower.
 1967 Underpinning of central Tower begins.
 1984 South
Transept roof destroyed by fire.
 2011 Work
starts on York Minster Revealed, one of the largest conservation and
restoration projects in the UK.
 2012 The
Orb and new multimedia galleries are opened.
   2013 Underground
interactive chambers opened, revealing historic treasures and York Minsters thousand year journey though
time.
 2016 Expected date for revealing the
fully restored Great East Window.
ALL IN ALL AN INCREDIBLE
BUILDING |