St George's Minster

About

Doncaster Minster, formally the Minster and Parish Church of St George, is the Anglican minster church of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is a grade I listed building and was designed by architect designer George Gilbert Scott. The church was built in 1854–1858 to replace an earlier building destroyed by fire. It is an active place of worship, and has a Schulze organ, a ring of eight bells, and a celebrated clock by Dent. The church is one of two parish churches to have minster status in South Yorkshire. The other is the minster church of Rotherham. Pevsner described the church as being the most "cathedral-like" of all of Scott's parish churches.

The original 13th-century Early English building burnt down on the last day of February 1853. This fire resulted in the loss of the medieval library which was above the south porch. The old church had some Norman remnants left over in the walls from the church previous to that, which also burnt down at the start of the 13th century. The current building was designed by architect Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1853, and the foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of York Thomas Musgrave on 24 February 1854. Construction...