The title " minster " is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title.

The new carillon is a gift to the minster.

The city is known for its ancient university and its medieval minster, as well as for its high standard of living and advanced environmental practices.

This is the site of Freiburg's Münster, a gothic minster cathedral constructed of red sandstone, built between 1200 and 1530 and noted for its towering spire.

In the 1050s, her name is coupled with that of her husband on a grant of land to the monastery of St Mary, Worcester and the endowment of the minster at Stow St Mary, Lincolnshire.

The foundation of the minster at Pershore is alluded to in a spurious charter of King Æthelred of Mercia ( r. 675-704 ).

However, the most famous building is the cathedral, or rather minster ( Doberaner Münster, 1368 ), which was once the church of Doberan Abbey, and is one of the most impressive examples of North German brick architecture.

Further evidence of Æthelred's involvement among the Hwicce comes from a charter in which he grants land for a minster in Gloucestershire, in Hwiccean territory ; the charter is generally thought to be a fabrication, but it appears to be based on an authentic earlier source.

Dewsbury () is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.

The term minster is first found in royal foundation charters of the 7th century ; and, although it corresponds to the Latin monasterium or monastery, it then designated any settlement of clergy living a communal life and endowed by charter with the obligation of maintaining the daily office of prayer.

On occasion minster is used to translate the German münster ( e. g. Basel, Bonn, Constance, Essen, Freiburg, Ulm ), which is a parallel translation of monasterium, but reflects a history of monasticism different from that of England.

Internationally, Ulm is primarily known for having the church with the tallest steeple in the world, the Gothic minster ( Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster ) and as the birthplace of Albert Einstein.

Occasionally in the 13th century it is referred to in official records as ' Blancmuster '( 1233 ) or ' Blancmostre '( 1272 ), meaning " white minster ".

The town itself it thought to have developed around the minster which, it is supposed, was on the same site as the current church.

The town has the minster church of St Mary the Virgin, with a highly decorated tower which, at high, is claimed to be one of the tallest towers in the West Country.

It is unlikely that this minster pre-dates the conversion of Wessex in the mid-7th century, or the foundation of the " burh " c. 886.

The town takes its name from a minster, that is a community of clergy in the district of Lene or Leon, probably in turn from an Old Welsh root lei to flow.

The town's name is thought to derive from the name of the River Were, which runs through the town, and from an Anglo-Saxon minster or monastery, which may have existed at, or close to, the present site of St Denys's Church.

Also in the town at the ancient minster church of Lady St. Mary is the coffin said to be that of Edward the Martyr, dating from 978.

It is not clear what the original Saxon settlement was north of, but John Blair, Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, suggested in 2000 at a lecture in Chipping Norton Town Hall that Charlbury to the south, now a smaller town, was in Anglo-Saxon times a more important minster town and that Chipping Norton's " nor -" prefix refers to this geographical and pastoral relationship with Charlbury.

* Cathedral or minster ( seat of a diocesan bishop within the Catholic church and the Anglican church )

Devastated by the English king in AD 948 as a warning to the Archbishop of York, only the crypt of Wilfrid ’ s church survived but today this tiny 7th century chapel rests complete beneath the later grandeur of Archbishop Roger de Pont l ’ Evêque ’ s 12th century minster.

Thomas of Bayeux, first Norman Archbishop of York, then instigated the construction of a third church, traces of which were incorporated into the later chapter house of Roger ’ s minster.

It served the Archbishop as a place of worship and was also a collegiate body of theological learning, hence its designation as a minster.

File: York York minster choir area 004. JPG | Choir York Minster, showing Kent's black & white marble floor

The superior of the minster would generally be from the family of the founder, and its primary purpose was to support the king and the thegn in the regular worship of the divine office ; especially through intercession in times of war.

Services in the minster are sometimes regarded as on the High Church or Anglo-Catholic end of the Anglican continuum.

St James's Church in Grimsby was dedicated as a minster on 16 May 2010.

To thank his Norman protectors for refuge during his exile, Edward the Confessor granted his royal minster church in Steyning, with its large and wealthy manor lands, to the Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity at Fécamp, to take effect after the death of Aelfwine, the Bishop of Winchester, who had charge of Steyning.

In around 1270, Peckham returned to England, where he taught at the University of Oxford, and was elected the Franciscan provincial minster of England in 1275.

The church was possibly a minster of Brixworth, which is one of the oldest remaining Saxon churches in England.

Southwell Minster () is a minster and cathedral, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.

Eventually a minster came to refer more generally to " any large or important church, especially a collegiate or cathedral church ".

The minster finally became a cathedral ( the church where the Bishop has his cathedra or throne ) in 1836, the focal point of the newly created Anglican Diocese of Ripon — the first to be established since the Reformation.

German examples are found in the church of St Laurence in Nuremberg ( 18. 70 metres ), the minster of Salem ( 16 metres ), Saints Peter and Paul city church in Weil der Stadt ( over 11 metres ), the church of Our Lady in Lübeck ( 9. 5 metres ), and St Mary's cathedral in Fürstenwalde on the Spree.

William of Malmesbury, a 12th-century writer, states that Thomas finished the cathedral, and this is corroborated by the fact that Thomas was buried in the minster in 1100.

It starts off with a grant of land, at Peppering, by Nunna to Berhfrith probably for the foundation of a minster.

The first cases for which documentary evidence has been preserved are Oswy's programme of 654 / 5 in which he endowed 12 small minsters, and a gift from Alhfrith to Wilfrid in around 660 to accompany the foundation of the minster at Ripon.

Thus, " minster " could apply to any church whose clergy followed a formal rule: as for example a monastery or a chapter ; or simply to a church served by a less formal group of clergy living communally.

The construction of the huge minster, which had been interrupted in the 16th century for economic reasons, was resumed and eventually finished ( 1844 – 91 ) in a wave of German national enthusiasm for the Middle Ages.

Over the following years, parts of the original manor were spun off as distinct manors ; for example, one was owned by the minster, later passing to the Abbey at Cirencester, which others were leased by the Crown to important families.

A year later, Scottish Media Group plc brought out the ITV contractor for Northern Scotland, Grampian Television, for £ 105 million .. Gus Macdonald left the company in 1998 to become a Scottish Trade minster.

The only substantive minster without portfolio has been Frank Aiken, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures during World War II.

The existence of a minster dedicated to Chad in this town seems to be a legend traceable to Burton's 1890 History of Kidderminster, in which the author acknowledges that the only evidence for such a place is the name of the town.

These provide a more plausible explanation for the name of the town than St Chad or his non-existent minster.

The church had been established in the middle Saxon period, and was probably a minster church, a base for a group of clergy living a communal life.

In a charter of 688, Cædwalla grants land at Farnham for a minster, so it is evident that Cædwalla controlled Surrey.

Wootton is first mentioned when Æthelbald, King of the Mercians, gave to the Earl Aethilric 20 hides of land for a minster between the years 723 and 737.

Old Windsor was also an early minster location and market, probably associated with a lock ( hence the need for a winch ) and important riverside mill complex.

In the year 1002 Codicote enters the written records for the first time when King Æthelred the Unready, its owner, sold it by means of a charter for the sum of 150 mancusae, or 900 shillings of pure gold to his ' faithful minster ' Ælfhelm.

:" Orm son of Gamal son bought St. Gregory's minster when it was all broken and fallen down and he let it be made new from the ground, for Christ and St. Gregory, in the days of Edward king, in the days of Tosti the eorl "