Architecture
The minster is built in ashlar stone with slate roofs in the English Gothic style of the late 14th century, a transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular, and is cruciform in plan. The church is 180 feet 7 inches long and 86 feet wide, its tower rises to 139 feet. The chancel and nave each have four bays of equal length with clerestories and tall aisles. The tower is situated at the centre of north aisle. Below the tower on the north side is the main entrance. The tower has four unequal stages with panelled sides and corner buttresses terminating in crocketed turrets with openwork battlements and crocketted pinnacles. The clock was made by Potts of Leeds.
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