The Cathedrals of England and Wales : their history, architecture, and associations ; with a series of Rembrandt plates and many illustrations in the text (1906)
London ; New York : Cassell · leaf 185
sent the finestfeature of the cathedral is the■ magnificent Early English westfacade, which is really a porchrather than a front, for it is out-side the western wall of the cathe-dral. As a portico, says Fer-gusson in his Handbook, thewest front of Peterborough is thegrandest and finest in… … THE BISHOPS THRONE. endom. Of the spiresfar the more beautiful. It is of early fourteenth-century work, andsome feet loftier than its feUow, which was erected from eightyto one hundred years later. The graceful combination of pinnaclesand spirelets at the foot of the south-west spire is, as a work…
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