The Chapter House roof was constructed in approximately 1285. This model of the roof shows the elaborate construction that is involved:
Above your head is the central boss with the lamb and flag. It is fixed at the bottom of the king post which rises to the apex of the roof. Now look for this boss and the king post in the model.
The king post is constructed from three huge oak trees spliced together. Its weight is held by the whole structure, primarily supported on four horizontal beams crossing in the centre (where the human figure is standing in the model). Eight queen posts and eight pendant posts terminate at the base with the ring of sixteen bosses visible above your head. Almost every timbre is numbered, which indicates that the roof was pre-made at ground level, then dismantled and reassembled in situ. *
*From an information board a York Minster.
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On all my visits to the Minster I had thought that the Dragon’s head was a recent addition, until I looked into it further on my recent visit…
It is thought to be part of a medieval mechanism that raised a font cover that has long since disappeared.
This is almost certainly the remains of an elaborate lifting mechanism for raising, by way of a chain through the dragon’s mouth, the 50ft (15.2m) high cover known to have adorned the medieval font, but lost at the Reformation. *
*From the York Minster guide book.
PS: I have amended my typo as per the first comment 
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This tester by Graeme Wilson is above St Cuthbert’s Chapel. It dates from 1982 and depicts St Cuthbert’s Vision of Heaven with Christ in Glory.
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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943)
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The Five Sisters Window is the main feature in the North Transept of York Minster:
Found in the North Transept of the Minster, the Five Sisters Window contains the largest amount of Early English ‘grisaille’ glass in a single window, anywhere in the world. The window was completed in 1260. It consists of five lancets, each of which is fifty feet high and five feet wide, and contains more than 100,000 pieces of glass.
‘Grisaille’ means ‘grey in background’, the groundwork of this type of glass being greyish-white.
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