Cathedral days : a tour through southern England (1887)
Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929, Deane, E. Eldon, ill · Boston : Roberts Brothers · leaf 108
deep wounds.This early Norman sculpture is strangely likeearly Assyrian and Indian work. All archaic workhas a more or less close resemblance; for it corre-sponds to the primitive art impulse, to the periodof the beginning of a nations art. The verger, wenoticed, drew his finger over the stiff… … CHICHESTER. 91 matic capabilities. He drew us into the choir, abovewhich soars the present lovely and modern spire.He assured us that long before any one else hadsuspected the old spire of weakness he knew thatit was doomed. Why, maam, the fissures was in the walls asbig as crevices. The sides ere…
Cathedrals
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