The minstertowers of York are seen to advantage from the plain as the Ouse approaches the ancient city.
The river then flows on through tolerably open ground towards Masham and Tanfield into the Marmion country, and onwards to Ripon, whose Minster dates from the twelfth century, and is the outcome of a much earlier foundation.
Wimborne Minster takes its name from the church whose square towers with odd minaretlike pinnacles loom over the town as we approach it from the south.
The rest of the day we give to a detailed study of the minster--our fourth visit, nor are we weary of York Minster yet.
The minster towers soon loomed dim in the purple light and we felt a sense of almost homelike restfulness when we were established at the Station Hotel--to our notion one of the two or three most comfortable in England.
The St. John from whom the minster took its name was Archbishop of York and founded a church on the present site in the sixth century.
And rightly should the name of the minster predominate, for it is the redeeming feature of the commonplace Dorset town.
But the minster has associations of a less mythical nature.
Wimborne Minster delights in its relics, its traditions, and its medieval customs.
While Canterbury has the greater historic interest and the tombs of many famous warriors and churchmen, York Minster can boast of perhaps the finest windows in the world.
Verily Wimborne Minster was well supplied with the stock in trade of the early church.
Ripon Cathedral is well-nigh forgotten by pilgrims who would see the great Yorkshire churches--so far is it surpassed by York Minster and Beverley.
Leave cant and craft their baptized bounds, Leave rank its minster floor; Give England's green and daisied grounds The poet of the poor!
In the morning we took a fly (an English term for an exceedingly sluggish vehicle), and drove up to the Minster by a road rather less steep and abrupt than the one we had previously climbed.
Inside of the minster there is a long and lofty nave, transepts of the same height, and side-aisles and chapels, dim nooks of holiness, where in Catholic times the lamps were continually burning before the richly decorated shrines of saints.
We now rambled about on the broad back of the hill, which, besides the Minster and ruined castle, is the site of some stately and queer old houses, and of many mean little hovels.
In my wanderings about town, I came to an artificial piece of water, called the Minster Pool.
The city of Westminster, the western part of the town, comes next under consideration which received its name from the abbey or minster situated to the westward of London.
The king stood 'neath the minster wall, And loudly on his child did call.
They went home through the happy town, The king forgot his royal crown, And soon, beneath the minster eaves, 'Twas hidden by the ivy leaves.
It is the star of Michael lit In the minster of the sun, That every toiling hand may give Thanks for the day's work done.
The streets are tiled with gold-green shade And arched with fretted gold, Ecstatic aisles that richly thread This minstergrim and old.
After that, when Mary in her bright tenderness hung round her sister, it was as if that was the last fond grasp from the substance--as if only the shadow would come back and live in Minster Street.
Aubrey: 'I might as well try to upset the Minster as a word from you to Leonard.
May to Tom for having learnt, and still more for having transmitted, all these details, and Ethel was not the less touched, because she knew they were to travel beyond Minster Street.
They told me you had fallen off the Minster tower!
Another very fine example of the Winchester school of illumination is the manuscript Charter which King Edgar granted to the new minster at Winchester in 966.
But these are guerdons of yesterday in comparison with other relics the Minster guards.
The principle is the same as in Saint Agnes and Saint Laurence at Rome, and as in German churches like the Great Minster at Zuerich; but the feeling is quite different.
And from that time the stall by the Minster door ceased to be a nest of stinging rumours, and instead, the children came to her, and the suffering, and a quiet glow fell at eventide on her heart.
Minster and Monastery, were names anciently applied to all parish-churches.
I mean (to take a working example), York Minster covered with flames might happen to be quite as beautiful as York Minster covered with carvings.
We know that Fairfax had "a peculiar respect" for antiquities, and that it was owing to his unceasing care that the Minster suffered so little in the war.
Fairfax and the other victorious generals marched to the Minster and "sang a psalm.
The narrow glen is thickly wooded, after the manner of Yorkshire dales both large and small, and in a clump of firs stands the Minster of St. Gregory.
Yet those whose time is limited will find that even a couple of nights spent at the justly famous Station Hotel will enable them to see more than the Minster without suffering from that sense of hurry that spoils pleasure.
What York Minster meant to Fairfax it must in a lesser degree mean to every Englishman.
No wonder he marched straight from the gate to the Minster and sang a psalm!
If it were not eclipsed by the minster the church of St. Mary at Beverley would be more famous than it is, for it, too, is full of beauty and interest.
He carried his favourite drinking-horn, his horn of ivory and gold, to York, and filling it there he knelt before the altar of the Minster and drank the wine in token that he endowed the church with all his lands for ever.
Faintly shining, York Minster shows like a pale opal hanging above the horizon.
He was himself a Yorkshireman, and like all Yorkshiremen, loved and honoured the city that has held so proud a place in English history, and the Minster that is the city's crown.
Each French cathedral and each minster makes its own special plea.
Sometimes in atonement we spend the revenues secured by heedless Might on minster or cathedral.
Next in importance to the minster is the castle, which, marred as it is by modern changes, still crowns the height as no unworthy yoke-fellow of its ecclesiastical neighbour.
The main gates of the minster yard were secured against them, but the small postern on the south side was apparently forgotten.
In the year 1884, when the eighteenth century railings at the western end of the minster were removed, and the ground round this part lowered, the sub-deanery was considerably altered to allow of the widening of the road.
During the time of the Commonwealth, the minster passed through a crisis such as it had never before experienced, and such as we may hope it will never experience again.
We may well be grieved at "the great mischief" done at this time, which would partly account for the dilapidated state of some of the stained glass windows; but the minster was to suffer far more severely under Henry VIII.
Besides the three west windows, and the upper portions of the western towers, the only other parts of the minster in the Perpendicular style are the three chantry-chapels added to the Angel Choir.
Before speaking of the grievous losses which the minster sustained under Henry VIII.
In the time of the "magnificent" bishop, Lincoln was the scene of stirring events, in which the minster played a curious part.
The corresponding chapel on the south side of the minster is sometimes called the "Ringers' Chapel.
As the earliest known example of the pointed style carried out consistently in its details, the choir of Lincoln Minster cannot be too carefully studied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
