. Vanishing England . Ml;1-,;! P. Half-timber Cottages, Waterside, Evesham 14 CHAPTER IX CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS THERE is always an air of quietude and restfulnessabout an ordinary cathedral city. Some of ourcathedrals are set in busy places, in great centresof population, wherein the high towering minster looksdown with a kind of pitying compassion upon the toilingfolk and invites them to seek shelter and peace and theconsolations of religion in her quiet courts. For agesshe has watched over the city and seen generation aftergeneration pass away. Kings and queens have come tolay thei
. Vanishing England . Ml;1-,;! P. Half-timber Cottages, Waterside, Evesham 14 CHAPTER IX CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS THERE is always an air of quietude and restfulnessabout an ordinary cathedral city. Some of ourcathedrals are set in busy places, in great centresof population, wherein the high towering minster looksdown with a kind of pitying compassion upon the toilingfolk and invites them to seek shelter and peace and theconsolations of religion in her quiet courts. For agesshe has watched over the city and seen generation aftergeneration pass away. Kings and queens have come tolay their offerings on her altars, and have been bornethere amid all the pomp of stately mourning to lie in thegorgeous tombs that grace her choir. She has seen itall—times of pillage and alarm, of robbery and spoliation,of change and disturbance, but she lives on, ever callingmen with her quiet voice to look up in love and faith andprayer. But many of our cathedral cities are quite small placeswhich owe their very life and existence t
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