Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . eaks in its roof. Tom Hood, a supposedhumourist, but in reality a sad soul, wailedover Colognes cathedral when he saw it inthe early years of the nineteenth century, andcalled it a broken promise to God ; andWordsworth wrote of it thus: Oh ! for the help of angels to completeThis temple — Angels governed by a planThus far pursued (how gloriously!) by man. A rearrangement of the Catholic sees ofGermany took place in 1821, and the arch-bishopric of Cologne was refounded andCount Charles Spiegel zum Desenburg wasappointed archbishop. At this time, also, was
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . eaks in its roof. Tom Hood, a supposedhumourist, but in reality a sad soul, wailedover Colognes cathedral when he saw it inthe early years of the nineteenth century, andcalled it a broken promise to God ; andWordsworth wrote of it thus: Oh ! for the help of angels to completeThis temple — Angels governed by a planThus far pursued (how gloriously!) by man. A rearrangement of the Catholic sees ofGermany took place in 1821, and the arch-bishopric of Cologne was refounded andCount Charles Spiegel zum Desenburg wasappointed archbishop. At this time, also, was undertaken the repairand completion of the cathedral, and thuswhat had long been a ruin and an unfinishedthing was in a fair way to be speedily com-pleted. The rebuilding of the choir stimulated the 253 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine desire to carry the entire work to a finish, anda sort of second foundation-stone was laid byFrederick William IV. of Prussia on Septem-ber 4, 1842, when the newly restored choirwas also Un • - -^= S T In 1848 the nave had sufficiently progressedto allow of its being consecrated; which cere-mony took place at seven oclock in the morn-ing of August 14th, six hundred years afterthe commencement of the choir. High masswas celebrated by the archbishop, in the pres- 254 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine ence of Archduke John, King Frederick Will-iam of Prussia, and a host of other nota-bles. Within the next twenty years much progresswas made in the work of completing the south-ern nave, the west front — with those enor-mous pretentious towers — the transepts, andthe triforium and clerestory of the nave andtransepts. In 1863 the wall between the fragmentarynave and the choir was removed and the struc-ture opened from end to end. Before 1870 the western towers were spired,though the final touches were not given tothem until quite 1880. Now that they are fin-ished, there is an undeniable elegance andsymmetry which cannot b
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