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informashun | 11:19 Mon 30th Apr 2007 | People & Places
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in the uk i know of three minsters , ie york, howden, and southwell.
does anyone know of any others.
thanks in advance.
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Wimborne
Also Sunderland - which only became a Minster when Sunderland was granted city status in 1998.
.....& Reading
What about Westminster, or am I on the wrong track?
Rotherham south yorkshire has a minster
In east Suffolk in Iken there is St Botulf's Minster....well worth a visit if you ever in that area. Wonderful ! Not far from Sutton Hoo. It was a monastery which is where it gets it title.. Minster ..as the abbot presided rather than a bishop because the old English word mynster means monastery.Pre reformation as were many cathedrals and churches. It isn't the seat of a bishop nowadays...but still retains the name.
http://www.wuffings.co.uk/WuffSites/Iken.html
Lincoln Cathedral is also known as Lincoln Minster. (It's school is Lincoln Minster School, not Lincoln Cathedral School).

There's also Dewsbury Minster.

and Stow (in Lindsey) Minster:
http://www.stowminster.org.uk/

as well as Doncaster Minster

which is near Rotherham Minster

Also in Yorkshire, there's Howden Minster:
http://www.howdenminster.net/

and Stonegrave Minster:
http://www.ampleforthbenefice.org/StonegraveMi nster.html

Down here, in Suffolk, there's the ruined South Elmham Minster:
http://www.southelmham.co.uk/minster.asp

Aagh! I've just worked my way through 30 pages of Google results to find that lot, before discovering this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minster_(cathedra l)

Chris
The parish church in Preston became a minster a few years ago, I think at the same time that the town won city status to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee.
how does a church get promoted to be a minster? (as mentioned in a couple of posts here)

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