![]() ![]() If I was travelling somewhere that had a cathedral, I would give myself extra time to visit it, sometimes a couple of days. So for me, it was all new, and standing there in Peterborough Cathedral was the beginning of my fascination.īefore long, I would seek out other cathedrals. ![]() Pictures and statues were forbidden the only bit of decoration might be an embroidered text. Our churches were never called “churches” they were halls with plain white walls. I was brought up in the Plymouth Brethren, a puritanical religious sect. It was the first time that I had really looked at a church like that. The view from a distance is often enrapturing, too. ![]() When you look up at the big stones, particularly if there is a tower, you think: how did they get that all the way up there? Then there is the sheer beauty of these wonderful churches, the way the arches sweep up, and the perspective down the nave. The people of the 12th century were very poor, yet they created these wonderful buildings: very beautiful, very expensive, very difficult to build for people who had crude tools and lacked the mathematics to calculate stresses. ![]()
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