Architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales. The drawings made from sketches taken expressly for this work, by Robert Garland. With descriptions by Thomas Moule (1838)
Winkles, Benjamin, Winkles, Henry, 1800-ca. 1860, Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851 · London, E. Wilson and C. Tilt · leaf 136
nrivalled in the world.The west fronts of Rheims and Peterborough have been thought toresemble each other by some, but it would puzzle a good gothic arclii-tect to discover the resemblance; Rheims has, indeed, three deeppointed portals side by side, the middle one being higher and widerthan the… … PETERUOROLGll CATIIKOH AI.. 73 there exists any otlior point of resomblancc) tliosi two west frontscannot be said to be in tlie least degree alike. But what a jrrand conception is here, llic front of tlio Icnipli ofthe Deity is adorned with a gigantic and finely proportioned portico,flanked with…
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