. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . GENERAL VIEW OF YORK. YORK Sill Walter Scott calls this cathedral tlie most auj^ust oftemples, the noble Minster of York, and its most devoted lovercan never complain that it has not in every age received its dueshare of veneration. From the time that Alcuin spread its famein the comitry of his ado})tion, telling with a sons pride of thebeauty of its decorations, the learning of its priests, and the trea-sures of its library, in the court of France, this glorious temple in the northhas never
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . GENERAL VIEW OF YORK. YORK Sill Walter Scott calls this cathedral tlie most auj^ust oftemples, the noble Minster of York, and its most devoted lovercan never complain that it has not in every age received its dueshare of veneration. From the time that Alcuin spread its famein the comitry of his ado})tion, telling with a sons pride of thebeauty of its decorations, the learning of its priests, and the trea-sures of its library, in the court of France, this glorious temple in the northhas never been without its historians, or its prelates without their this overwhelming mass of information it is no easy task to extract andcondense a few pages that shall be generally interesting, yet sufficiently us look first at the west front, that ex(piisite specimen of Gothic art,which has been compared with the celebrated fa(;ade at Rheims Cathedral forrichness, sublimity, and beauty of architectural design ; it is certainly not surpassedby that of any church in England in its line proportions, ch
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