Beverley Minster roof tours are being made more family-friendly this Easter Bank Holiday Monday 21st April when all accompanied children under 16 go free.
The highly-popular roof tours visit the workshop where leaded windows are being repaired, and also include a demonstration of Britain’s biggest and oldest working treadwheel crane.
Visitors are taken into the roof spaces above the transept, central tower and nave, demonstrating how the minster, one of the oldest surviving Gothic buildings in Britain, was built.
In many ways a pioneer of different building techniques over the two centuries it took to build the entire structure, Beverley Minster is a remarkable survivor from the 13th and 14th centuries and is of international importance.
The guided roof tours give a truly unique insight into how our ancestors managed to construct magnificent buildings that still stir the imagination some 800 years later.
The tours start at 10.30am on Bank Holiday Monday and run throughout the day, subject to demand. Price £6 per adult, accompanied under 16s go free.
The Minster is also providing a wide range of specially-commission refreshments in the Parish Hall throughout the day.
The Minster is also hosting a Bank Holiday organ recital, performed by Beverley Minster assistant organist Ian Seddon, beginning at 6pm.
Admission is free and there is a retiring collection.
