Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890)
Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923, Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 227
hundred years later. Thegraceful combination of pinnacles and spire lights at the foot of the south-westspire is, as a work of art, the most beautiful thing to be seen in Peterborough.But glorious as is this western front, it has some blemishes, detected at once bythe artistic eye. The central… … THE WEST FRONT. whole, built without any buttress on the west, is manifest. This has been inpart remedied by the erection of an inner porch with a room above (now thelibrary), which clearly improves the stability of the central arch. This arch isnarrower tlian the others, l)ut the gables above have…
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