In the foreground we see the Minster Library which, unfortunately, we didn't have time to visit. Around 1230, Archbishop Walter Gray erected the building as his private chapel (apparently the Minster wasn't big enough!) From the 1500s on, it was neglected but later restored as the largest cathedral library in the country around 1810. Besides 120,000 books (25,000 from before 1801), the library contains local biographical information with over a half million entries for Yorkshire residents before 1550.
The Minster library was started in 750 AD; but any books that old were long burnt by accident or design (thank you, Vikings and Normans, we were behind on our reading anyway).
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