Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 35
of any English church, is a fitting cresting to thecliffs of walls; the solid and almost sternly simple charac-ter of the transepts, especially as they appeared beforethe hand of the so-called restorer was heavy upon them,are fit supports for the low square central tower whichcrowns the vast… … ST. ALBANS silent and majestic monument of what St. Albans oncewas in the days of its glory. Its walls once looked downupon a vast assemblage of buildings of which it was thecentre; towers and gables, courtyards and cloister; kitch-ens and guest-houses, stables and offices stretched out farover the…
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