Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 302
lly suggestedone. We know nothing more of this Twelfth Centurychurch ; but it seems probable that it had no nave, as wefind that very early in the Thirteenth Century a nave wasdesigned and partly built, as it still stands. Towards the middle of the Thirteenth Century (not Ithink before 1240) the… … GLASGOW CATHEDRAL 223 time as the choir. The work was thereafter carried onwestward slowly but steadily till the nave was finished, aboutforty or fifty years after the choir. It will be noticed thatthe base of the choir is entirely different from that of thenave. The same base is carried round the…
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