. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . historic building in the whole ofthe United Kingdom. Let us enter the Minster by itswestern door; for this is the bestway of apprehending at a glanceits most characteristic , as seen from this point—with Wrens work at our back,and that of Henry VIL hid fromview—is the uniformity of thedesign as a whole. Though, aswe have said, almost the wholeof the nave is later than the reignof Henry HI., it produces theimpression of a building belonging to the earliest part of the Middle Pointed,or Decor
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . historic building in the whole ofthe United Kingdom. Let us enter the Minster by itswestern door; for this is the bestway of apprehending at a glanceits most characteristic , as seen from this point—with Wrens work at our back,and that of Henry VIL hid fromview—is the uniformity of thedesign as a whole. Though, aswe have said, almost the wholeof the nave is later than the reignof Henry HI., it produces theimpression of a building belonging to the earliest part of the Middle Pointed,or Decorated, Period. Another feature is, for an English Minster, its exceptional THE SOUTH TRANSEPT. Westmixstku Ahdey.] AHCIHTECTURAL. 281 lieiglit. Its areliitccturc lias been, from the first, slightly exotic. Both the EnoHshEdward and the Eiif^lish-born Henry made use of French architects. WestminsterAbbey is not only actually the loftiest ecclesiastical structure in England, butalso the highest in })roi)oriion to its breadth; the ratio of the one to the otherbeing- 3 to 1, while in most
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