Nothing speaks medieval quite like the ancient walled city of York.
We walked through the ancient gates to the largest Gothic cathedral in the United Kingdom, the York Minster.
It contained some of the oldest and most beautiful stained glass in all of England.
It even has a couple of dragons.
It has a stained glass that was created around the time of the crusaders when they brought back Moorish art.
The Minster has an octagonal tiled room addition with medieval gothic characitures called grotesques.
They were thought to scare you into being obedient. Most are pretty scary. I took a few pics of the more pleasant ones.
Imported tile floor includes tiles to represent the gospel keys of St. Peter, the Minsters patron saint.
The Minster is very large! If you want to visit the Minster than you pay an entrance fee. If you just want to pray then a guard escorts you to the choir section where you can pray.
There were a lot of memorial graves around the walls. Some quite ancient, some memorial, some quite descriptive in how the person came to their death, and some very dimensional.
There was a beautifully done memorial to the fallen flight soldiers of the wars.
Bee in my Bonnet 