York

After leaving Newcastle we stopped and spent some time in the historic town of York. The most impressive site was the York Minster, the largest Gothic church north of the Alps.

It is hard to convey the size with these pictures. The cathedral is 540 feet long (almost 2 football fields) and 200 feet tall. The windows were amazing. At one end, the windows take up the size of two tennis courts.

Here is a shot of part of the ceiling.

This area is called "the choir." It is in the middle of the cathedral. We sat in these box seats for an Anglican (Church of England) evensong service to which the public is invited. It was awesome. You can imagine what the acoustics were like.

This area was taken over by the Romans at one point and also the Vikings. There is a really nice Viking exhibit that shows what Viking life was like based on archeological evidence.