Bedern Hall
Medieval stone dining hall of the Minster's singing clergy, under a surviving scissor-truss roof.
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This guide to Bedern Hall in York follows the archaeologists who dug this neglected corner beside the Minster in the nineteen seventies, and the hundreds of carved stones they pulled from the ground. It reaches back to the vicars choral, the singing clergy who dined here from the Middle Ages, and forward through the butchers, bakers and pie makers who came after. Best heard inside the hall, facing its old limestone walls.
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