New St George carving unveiled at York Minster
(World News UK)

Stonemasons at York Minster have marked St George´s Day by revealing a newly-carved figure of the patron saint as part of an £11 million restoration project. The 3ft grotesque is one of four new carvings created to replace badly eroded 200-year-old figures removed from the cathedral last year. St George will sit on a pinnacle alongside a dragon and two other grotesques produced as part of the 11-year scheme to conserve and restore the minster´s 14th-century South Quire Aisle. The original carvings, which are believed to have dated from the late 1700s, showed three...