How much did the Minster cost to build?
Unfortunately we do not know. The Fabric Rolls held in the Minster library detail the costs of various items, wages paid to people, and amounts spent on building. Many of the rolls have been lost over the centuries and so we do not have a complete set covering the 250 years in which the Minster was built. • Stained Glass The Minster has one of the best collections of Stained glass in England. There are 128 windows, containing about 2 million individual pieces of glass. The Great East window of York Minster is the single largest area of medieval glass in the world, it is about the same size as a tennis court! A glass painter called John Thornton made it between 1405 and 1408. A copy of the contract has survived and we know that John Thornton was paid 56 in 1408 for three years work. Today we think that his 56 would be worth about 300,000. Each window is cleaned and restored about every 125 years. When we clean the windows they must be taken completely apart and each piece of glass clean
