YORK Minster in peril, screamed the headline in the Yorkshire Evening Press on April 7, 1967, adding: “Central tower could fall after 15 years”. The story that followed was truly shocking.

Three medieval stone pinnacles from Beverley Minster have sold for more than £7,000 at auction. The spires, thought to date back about 750 years, were removed from the roof of the minster a ...