Cathedral days : a tour through southern England (1887)
Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929, Deane, E. Eldon, ill · Boston : Roberts Brothers · leaf 234
y. The interiorwe found no less exquisitely beautiful. I use theword exquisite with deliberation of purpose, becauseno other word would so well describe the delicacy,the high degree of finish, and the supreme eleganceof this wonderful interior. The style is Norman,but it is the Norman of that… … Romsey Abbey, Transept and Nave. Page 206. HURSLEY AND ROMSEY ABBEY. 207 solidity. Here each archway, each string-course,and each cornice had been made to bloom under theinspired chisel into rhythmic waves of ornament,—that wise linear restraint which preceded the mo-ment when the poetry of tracery…
Cathedrals
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