. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . beckets crown. There is, perhaps, no cathedralin England of which the dis-tant view is more impressivethan that of Canterbury. Ithas not the advantages of situa-tion possessed by Durham orLincoln or Ely. Standing inthe open valley of the Stour,it is surrounded—though for-^tunately at a distance — byhigher ground, but it rises I^B above the clustering houses ofthe citv, above the surround-. THE CKVPT. ing meadows and undulating fields, like a three-peaked mountain of stone. The western towers are compar
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . beckets crown. There is, perhaps, no cathedralin England of which the dis-tant view is more impressivethan that of Canterbury. Ithas not the advantages of situa-tion possessed by Durham orLincoln or Ely. Standing inthe open valley of the Stour,it is surrounded—though for-^tunately at a distance — byhigher ground, but it rises I^B above the clustering houses ofthe citv, above the surround-. THE CKVPT. ing meadows and undulating fields, like a three-peaked mountain of stone. The western towers are comparatively low, though lofty enough to break the monotony of the long line of the nave roof, and to lead the eye duly upwards 6 CATHEDRAL CIIUIiCIIES [Cantbkbury. to the central peak. Of those towers, the southern was completed by Goldstone,having been begun by Archbishop Cliichele, while the northern was rebuilt in thepresent century, being completed in the year 1834. This replaced one of the oldNorman towers which had survived the reconstruction of the nave, and bore the nameof the Arundel Steeple, from a peal of bells placed in it during the primacyof that archbishop. The principal entrance to the cathedral, approached from the town through thegreat gateway, another work of Prior Goldstone, is by the south porch, as it was even in the time of the Saxonstructure. This occupies a ratherunusual position, as it opens intoone of the western towers. Itcorresponds in style with t
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