A short walk north of the Minster, St Mary's is the kind of church that would be the headline sight in most towns. Begun in the twelfth century and largely rebuilt in the fifteenth, it has an exuberant west front, a fine central tower, and a painted nave ceiling depicting forty English kings — one of only a handful of such ceilings in the country.
The interior is full of detail. Stone carvings of musicians decorate the chancel, and the famous Beverley Messenger Rabbit — a small medieval carving of a rabbit-pilgrim, said to have inspired Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit — can be found high on a column in the north choir aisle. Ask one of the welcomers to help you locate it; it is easily missed.