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Cathedral cities of Spain (1909)

Collins, W. W. (William Wiehe), b. 1862 · London : Heinemann; New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 40

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really muchhigher. The columns of the double aisles break upthe two hundred and sixty feet of its width andadd much to the solemn dignity of the vast interior,enhanced greatly by the height of the vaultingabove the spectator. Standing anywhere in theCathedral I felt that there was a roof above my… … SEVILLE simple iron-gilt reja. The silkria, by Sanchez,Dancart, and Guillier are very fine and tookseventy years to execute. Between the coro andCapilla Mayor, in Holy Week the great bronzecandlestick, twenty-five feet high, a fine specimenof sixteenth-century work, is placed alight. Whenthe Misere…

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