York Minster, West Front Gate

Slide 4 – When Robert de Vavaour supplied from his quarries near Tadcaster, the stone for building the nave of the Minster in 1291, the memory of this is preserved in a statue of a Vavasour as a mailed Knight bearing a block of wrought stone, was erected at the west end of the building above the western portal. Again in 1829 after the fire due to the incendiary, Jonathan Martin, the first help towards the repairs came from Sir Edward Vavasour, who offered stone .