. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . had a narrow escape, wasin some respects absolutelyhideous. On the 1st of May,1674, Wren began to clearaway the ruins for thenew foundations—a workof no little difficulty. Tolay these took some time, for Wren was too great a man to run any riskthat his building should fall into ruins. He, like the Romans, built foreternity rather than for time; and it was not until June 21st, 1675, thatthe first stone was laid. The old and the new cathedrals, roughly speaking,occupy the same site, but as the latter is
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . had a narrow escape, wasin some respects absolutelyhideous. On the 1st of May,1674, Wren began to clearaway the ruins for thenew foundations—a workof no little difficulty. Tolay these took some time, for Wren was too great a man to run any riskthat his building should fall into ruins. He, like the Romans, built foreternity rather than for time; and it was not until June 21st, 1675, thatthe first stone was laid. The old and the new cathedrals, roughly speaking,occupy the same site, but as the latter is considerably shorter than theformer, and as the end of its eastern apse is not far away from the east wallof the earlier building, the present west front is some distance within theboundary of the former one. But the new building is broader in every part—nave, choir, and transepts—than the old one, and the two differ in orientation,the former pointing some seven or eight degrees north of east, the latter lyingalmost due east and west. The work went on, and by April, 1684, more than. IHE CHOIR, BEFORE THE REMOVAL OF THE SCREEN.(From a Print puUislied 1754.)
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