York Minster Cathedral

York is a very impressive city. Founded in 71 AD or so it is very quaint with the cobble streets and brick and stone everywhere it is like the Charles Dickens story. There is a store called Old Fezziwig's. The school that went with the Cathedral is so neat. The children were outside playing today while we were there and they all had their little caps on and uniforms. The little British accents just melt you. TOO CUTE, but I AM NOT ELEMENTARY ED.
The Cathedral is 518Ft. long and the Nave is 276Ft. and the East End is 236Ft. The Transcepts are 249 Ft. wide and the Nave is 138 Ft. wide and the East End 128Ft. The height in the Central Tower is 197Ft. and Western Towers 174 Ft. Are you getting the idea that this place is HUGE..it is in the shape of a cross. The hand out states it is the largest medieval gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. I also went below ground and they have exposed the different layers to the Romans level then the Normans in 11th century and the current level. It was amazing to be down there and realize how much history was right before me. I could have stayed all day and tomorrow. We sang at 130 pm today it went well the sound floated up and across the church it was like those CD's you buy of some famous choir in the place like York Minster, only it was US .
Tomorrow we are off to Oxford and Stamford then Thursday we head to London. Stay tuned
Check out the web site it is a virtual tour of York Minstry
http://www.vryork.com/minster/minster_index.html
http://www.yorkminster.org/