The Cathedral Classic Reprint

Author : Esther Singleton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260333483
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book How to Visit the English Cathedrals (Classic Reprint) written by Esther Singleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How to Visit the English Cathedrals The cathedral usually grew architecturally from age to age, or rose like a phoenix from the ashes of an earlier building. Not only is there built into a mediaeval cathedral the accumulated thought of all the men who had occupied themselves with building during the preceding centuries, but you have the dream and aspiration of the bishop, ah bot, or clergy for whom it was designed; the master mason's skilled construction; the work of the carver, the painter, the glazier, the host of men who, each in his own craft, knew all that had been done before them, and had spent their lives in struggling to surpass the works of their forefathers. It is more than this: there is not one shaft, one moulding, one carving, not one chisel-mark in such a building, that was not designed specially for the place where it is found, and which was not the best that the-experience of the age could invent for the purpose to which it is applied; nothing was borrowed; and nothing that was designed for one purpose was used for another. A thought or a motive peeps out through every joint; you may wander in such a building for weeks or for months together, and never know it all. Most English cathedrals are built in the form of a Latin cross, the arms of which are called the transepts. Over their point of intersection the central tower is usually erected. The part of the church running westward from this point to the entrance door is the nave and that running eastward to the high altar is the choir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.