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York Minster, 1893. The building of York Minster began in 1220, when Archbishop Walter de Gray decided to rebuild the existing Norman Minster in a style and on a scale to rival Canterbury Cathedral. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.