The Cathedrals of England |
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aesthetically altar Angel Choir apse arches architect artistic beautiful bosses building built buttresses Canterbury capitals carved central pier central tower chapter chapter-house characteristic choir aisles church clerestory cloisters colour corbels Coventry crypt Decorated Decorated period dome doorway Durham east end engaged shafts England English cathedrals English Gothic example Exeter exterior façade feature finest foliage fourteenth century France ft high gables Gloucester Gothic architecture Grinling Gibbons horizontal interior Lady Chapel lancets later less Lichfield lierne ribs lierne vault limestone Lincoln lofty looking east mediaeval mouldings nave north transept Norwich octagonal original ornamental pair Perp Perpendicular Peterborough porch presbytery proportions pulpitum Purbeck marble rebuilding retro-choir ribs Romanesque rood screen roof Salisbury sandstone sculpture SEXPARTITE VAULT side south-west Southwell spandrels spire St Albans St Paul's stained glass stalls stiff-leaf stone style survived tierceron tracery transept tribune triforium vertical Victorian wall west front west tower Winchester York