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Peter Gibson (glazier)

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The Minster was visible from the sitting room, his bedroom and the attic of his Georgian cottage. "I live here, and I look out of the window, and there it is, the Minster. It is one of the greatest buildings in the world," he said. "People cross oceans, cross the world, to come and see it."
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window in the Minster's nave. While it was being repaired in 1950, workers discovered the likeness of Jesse was missing, so an artist was commissioned to paint a new figure. Gibson, a young glazier at the time, was the only person in the workshop available to pose as a model.
267:, where he served as chorister and organ blower before being made church warden – a role he carried out for more than forty years. He received the honorary title of warden emeritus in 2008. In 2010, he was given honorary 256:. His only sibling, older sister Ellen, also lived there up until her death. "Having been brought up with someone like my sister, one gets very attached to them. Probably more so than if they had left home and married." 147:. "They had nowhere to live," Gibson said in 2009, "and they heard that some Minster properties were available. They went to see the estate agents, and asked if they could be considered, and the answer was yes." 532: 178:
Gibson worked on each of York Minster's more than 120 windows, jokingly referring to himself as "the Minster's window cleaner", and he twice oversaw the restoration of the
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Gibson died in York in 2016, aged 87. His funeral took place at St Michael le Belfrey Church on 6 December 2016.
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in recognition of his lifetime of service to the city's historical features.
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York Minster's Great East Window after its decade-long conservation project
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Gibson was born in 1929, to Scottish father William, a private in the
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He also worked on the stained-glass windows of York's
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Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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York Minster
York
Glazier
conservator-restorer
MBE
OBE
glazier
craftsman
York Minster
York

1 Precentor's Court
Royal Scots Greys
First World War
Nunthorpe Secondary Modern School
Eric Milner-White
Dean of York

rose window
great fire of 1984
Tree of Jesse
St Martin-cum-Gregory's Church
St Denys's Church
All Saints' Church
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Stained Glass Association
Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

York Minster

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