Visions, Voices, Vocations: Celebrating Women in York Minster

**Harriet, Experienced Stonemason, York Minster**

**Abbie, Glazier, York Glazier’s Trust**

**Abbie, Glazier, York Glazier’s Trust (detail)**

**Gwynne, Chaplain**
Gwynne is inspired by Julian of Norwich, a medieval mystic and pioneering female author. Julian had a vision – a revelation – about a simple hazelnut.

**Kirsty, Curator (detail)**
Kirsty works at the Minster’s Old Palace Library. This is where York Minster keep many of the 300,000 artefacts in their care. This reliquary is one example of such an artefact. It may have belonged to St William of York nearly 900 years ago.

**Harriet, Experienced Stonemason with Bracken the ‘K9 Mason’**

As part of an Artist Residency with York Minster, Visions, Voices, Vocations: Celebrating Women in York Minster is a photography series exhibited at the Cathedral’s Chapter House running until 16 November 2025. The exhibition features high-definition screens that display the specially commissioned photographs. The emotive installation captures just some of the inspirational women who contribute to the life and mission of the Minster today, ranging from its police force and musicians to stonemasons and conservators.

This is a small sample from the wider series and more will be added through the year.

York Minster Exhibition Information.