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Kilbourne <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:41:21 +0200
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N feet deeper, until they rested upon solid rock, and then each stone
was replaced in its original position. Restoration is so perfect that
the ordinary beholder would never know the tower had been touched. This
incident gives an idea of how the cathedrals are now cared for and at
what cost they are restored after ages of neglect and destruction.
[Illustration: A TYPICAL BYWAY.] Peterborough was stripped of most of
its images and carvings by Cromwell's soldiers and its windows are
modern and inferior. Our attention was attracted to three or four
windows that looked much like the crazy-quilt work that used to be in
fashion. We were informed that these were made of fragments of glass
that had been discovered and patched together without any effort at
design, merely to preserve them and to show the rich tones and colorings
of the original windows. The most individual feature of Peterborough is
the three great arches on the west, or entrance, front. These rise
nearly two-thirds the height of the frontage and it is almost a hundred
feet from the ground to the top of the pointed arches. The market square
of Peterborough was one of the largest we

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