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buttresses. Of course the window is very beautiful, as I have 
already pointed out, but the towers, I think, are not at all suff- 
ciently dignified to harmonise with the rest of the building, and 
the cornices and pinnacles are deplorably bad. 
To the South Transept a vast amount of dignity is added by the 
broad flight of steps leading up to the south doorway. The door 
itself is very beautiful in detail, being carved in delicate tracery, 
but, with the exception of the great rose window, this transept is 
not considered to be a very admirable specimen of medieval 
architecture. 
The exterior of the Choir shows the minor Eastern Transept. 
These transepts are really means for breaking up the long length of 
the eastern portion of the fabric, and do not form actual transepts 
in the interior. They are, nevertheless, a» happy architectural 
feature. 
The general effect of the window tracery throughout the Minster 
is disappointing. It is not of any extraordinary design, or, if so, 
it is of a negative rather than of a positive value, and although 
there are so many windows, the repetition of the same design is 
so great that little or no interest is excited in this portion of the 
details. But in the windows of the Choir, etc., a very novel 
feature is introduced externally. There is a mullioned screen 
placed in front of these windows of quite a different design, and 
which is entirely separate therefrom, and this causes a consider- 
able amount of shadow, which is very effective. 
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Beverley Minster, which is dedicated to St. John, ranks next to 
York Minster so far as the ecclesiastical structures of the county 
are concerned. The greater portion has been erected in the best 
style of English Gothic. The west front in the Perpendicular style 
is far before York in the Decorated style. It is noticeable how 
much these two Minsters agree in general composition, but Bever- 
ley, although two hundred feet shorter than York, is perhaps more 
striking to the eye by reason of its isolated position. The chief 
features of the west door are the statues and symbols of the Four 
