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York Minster, England, is the second-largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472.

After a major fire in 1829 which destroyed the Quire, a rebuilding programme began and a new Grand Organ was commissioned. A donation of £3,000 paid for most of the cost of the new organ and its "gingerbread gothic" style case which sits above the Quire Screen. Parts of this instrument still exist today.

In 2018 a major 3-year, £2m refurbishment began on the organ, the first on this scale since 1903. The instrument was removed in October 2018 – including nearly all of its 5,403 pipes – and taken to Durham for repair and refurbishment by organ specialists Harrison and Harrison. The majority of the 100 display pipes in the main organ casing will be brought back into use for the first time in more than 100 years. The organ has now been returned to the cathedral and work is underway to rebuild it, ready for completion in spring 2021.

References:
yorkminster.org
en.wikipedia.org

Taken on: December 21, 2020

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