Excerpt from Beverley and Its Minster But now we draw near to the venerable Minster of St. John, and perhaps, if we happen to be students of architecture, we begin to ask ourselves whether, on the whole, we have ever seen so beautiful a church. Nor is this to be wondered at, since the late eminent archaeologist, Canon Venables, writing under the very shadow of his own beloved Lincoln, declared Beverley to be the loveliest of English Minsters. In the opinion of many excellent judges, wrote an able critic in the London Guardian (september Beverley Minster is, taken all round, the very finest church the country possesses. Mr. Leach begins the introduction to his edition of the Beverley Chapter Act Book by saying: There is no more beautiful building in England than Beverley Minster. Beverley, like the King's daughter, is all glorious within. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.