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Britain has some of the most beautiful cathedrals in Europe. Like all cathedrals, those of Britain are a testimony both to the driving power of faith and human ambitions to leave monuments that are lasting and beautiful. Whether at Canterbury or Durham, massive and awesome in their grandeur and majesty, or at Oxford, where Britain’s smallest cathedral, Christ Church, has a diminutive jewel-like beauty, the cathedrals of Britain are a part of living history. In an age when almost all buildings were only one or two storeys high, the great medieval cathedrals towered inspiringly over the surrounding countryside and often took their builders many generations to finish. The creation of a cathedral was truly an act of faith. Everything present in the building was put there to praise God the Architect; and the unique power of the cathedral to impress us — which is as powerful today as it ever was — has rightly been described as ‘frozen music’. In his lively and stimulating text David L. Edwards, Provost of Southwark Cathedral in London and a well-known historian, looks at eighteen of the most beautiful and interesting of these ‘Palaces of God’. He gives each cathedral a separate chapter i

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Author

edwards david L

Published

1989

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction