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Tomorrow will see booksellers and bibliophiles heading to the York book fair. I can’t go this year, but thought I’d share the following which came in recently: ‘Drawn on Stone by F[rederick]. Mackenzie’, it’s a lithograph entitled Interior of York Minster from the Nave.  Shewing the Screen of the Choir in the Situation to which […]

After every catastrophe comes the opportunity for revival and, just as Notre Dame is rising out of the ashes today, so too did York Minster in the years following a disastrous arson attack in February, 1829. Jonathan Martin (1782-1838; brother of the artist, John Martin) very nearly destroyed York Minster entirely when he lit a […]