Services

Sunday	10.00 Sung Eucharist, 11.30 Choral Matins (1st Sunday of month Sung Eucharist), 16.00 Choral Evensong
Weekdays	17.15 Choral Evensong (Mon visitng choir)

Service Sheet www.yorkminster.org/worship/services/service-times/

Facilities

Entrance: Adult £5.50, Seniors/students £4.50, Children under 16 free

Disabled: Access faciliteis for disabled, wheelchairs on request call 01904 557222

Refectory: Licensed restaurant in St Williams College, open Sun/Mon 10.30 - 17.00, Tue - Sat 10.30 - 22.00

Shop: Minster shop with large range of books, CDs & gifts

Website: www.yorkminster.org

E-mail address: visitors@yorkminster.org

Telephone
Visitors 01904 557216

Music

Organist and Master of the Music
Robert Sharpe (since 2008)

Previous organists at York included Philip Moore 1982 - 2008, Francis Jackson 1946 - 1982 & Edward Bairstow 1913 - 1946

Dr Jackson is a Vice-President of the FCM.  He received the CBE for services to music in the Queen's birthday honours in 2007.

 

Choir
There are 20 boy & 20 girl choristers plus 8 probationers aged 8 -13, all educated at the Minster School.  Services are normally sung by either the boys or the girls with the men (6 Song Men & 6 Choral Scholars). The boys and girls rarely sing at the same service except for special occasions.

Organ

1832 Hill, rebuilt 1903 J W Walker, rebuilt 1916, 1931 Harrison & Harrison, rebuilt 1960 J W Walker, rebuilt 1993 Principal Pipe Organs

4 manuals 84 stops

Pedal 21 stops, Choir 10 stops, Great  24 stops, Swell 16 stops, Solo 13 stops

Organ specification www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D04217

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Keith Jones (since )

Archbishop
The Most Revd John Sentamu (since 2005)

Building
The first recorded Minster  at York was a wooden building in 627, replaced by a stone church damaged by fire when the Normans took the city in 1069.  No trace of these now exists and the present building was completed around 1100 and enlarged during the 12th century.  But it was Archbishop Walter Gray who began to transform the church during the 13th century into the Minster we know today.  The Quire was completed in 1415 and the towers between 1433 and 1472.  Little changed until 1829 when an act of arson destroyed the Quire and the East end and another accidental fire destryord the Nave roof and vault in 1840.  Between 1967 & 1972 major work was undertaken to prevent the central tower from collapsing and in 1984 a lightning strike in the South transept caused a major fire which took four years to restore.  Continuous work is required to maintain and restore this magnificent building.