Clive Holmes, 87, spent two years constructing the 6ft (1.8m) lengthy reproduction which comes full with arched home windows and gargoyles.
The eager mannequin maker from Durham has spent many years creating fashions of church buildings and cathedrals together with of Durham.
He was impressed to show his hand to York Minster after his granddaughter moved to town to review on the college.
However his newest creation is now too huge to maintain at residence and his household are in search of a brand new proprietor to take it on, with Clive threatening to burn it on November 5 if a brand new residence can not be discovered.
Clive stated: “Since I retired I work on all of them day.
“I wish to preserve my arms busy.
“I place every matchstick separately and trim then right down to the precise dimension I would like.
“There’s rather a lot concerned earlier than you even begin doing the matchsticks.
“I take numerous images and hopefully get a floor flooring plan after which I scale all of it down in drawings.
“In the event that they’re curved home windows, all of them must be trimmed into little bits and caught collectively which takes extra time and a focus to get it proper.”
His household at the moment are hoping York Diocese take the mannequin which is just too huge to slot in Clive’s residence in Durham.
His daughter Sue Todner, 56, stated: “My daughter moved to York for college and she or he’s settled there so dad simply thought ‘why not make a mannequin of the Minster’.
“Dad has been constructing fashions eternally.
“I actually know that as youngsters rising up, it was how my sister and I earned our pocket cash, simply trimming off the ends of donated matches.
“We used to get 10 pence for about 200 matches.
“The York Minster mannequin could be very spectacular however it’s simply too huge to slot in the home.
“You’d want a complete room to show it so it’s within the storage however we’d adore it to go to the true York Minster in the event that they’d have it.”
Sue has launched an attraction on social media to provide the art work a brand new residence within the metropolis.
She stated that if there have been no takers for the mannequin, her dad would set it on hearth on November 5.
She added: “The rationale I put it on-line is as a result of dad stated if I didn’t discover someplace for it to go, he would torch it on fifth November.
“It was so vital it had some kind of recognition.”
Writing on the York Minster Fb web page, they stated: “There’s one thing poetic about this matchstick mannequin coming to gentle (no pun meant) in the course of the fortieth anniversary of our final main hearth in 1984!”
Clive has additionally made comparable matchstick fashions in Grimsby Minster and Durham Cathedral.