The Archbishop of York made England's largest parish church a minster yesterday.

In a historic move, in the first ceremony of its kind, Dr John Sentamu travelled up the River Humber with a flotilla of boats to make Hull's Holy Trinity Church a minster.

The last church to be transformed into a minster was in Cheltenham in 2013.

Dr Sentamu described the 700-year-old church as a "phoenix rising from the ashes" and made the decision to bestow the honour after it was saved from closure by parishioners in the city.