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Updated: June 6, 2025
She nodded toward the west: "The Minsters are on the way to Brookminster, the Orchils have already arrived at Hitherwood House, and the coachmen and horses were housed at Southlawn last night. I rather dread the dinners and country formality that always interfere with the jolly times we have; but it will be rather good fun at the bathing-beach. . . . Do you swim well? But of course you do."
No one can study the earlier history of our great monastic houses without finding the secret of that sudden outburst of industrial activity to which we owe the noblest of our minsters in the loans of the Jew. The bonds of many a great baron, the relics of many an abbey, lay pledged for security in the "Star-chamber" of the Jew.
Those leaps of live stone like frozen fountains, were so placed and poised as to catch the eye of ordinary inconsiderate men going about their daily business; and when they are so seen they are never forgotten. The true way of reviving the magic of our great minsters and historic sepulchres is not the one which Ruskin was always recommending. It is not to be more careful of historic buildings.
Their Christianity was sad; their minsters sad; there are few sadder, though few grander, buildings than a Norman church. And yet, perhaps, their Christianity did not make them sad. It was but the other and the healthier side of that sadness which they had as heathens.
Looking across out of the aisle the true way to judge the real height at last comes out, and we are reminded of some of the most stately minsters of France.... By arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers of Hawthorne's works, Houghton, Mifflin Co.
The stones are fretted and carved more elaborately than those of any French or English cathedral, but entirely in arabesques and diapering of low relief, so that the spectator misses with regret the solemn rows of saints and patriarchs that enrich the portals of our Gothic minsters.
Burgher and artizan were left to spell out what religious instruction they might from the gorgeous ceremonies of the Church's ritual or the scriptural pictures and sculptures which were graven on the walls of its minsters.
The appearance of the city in Saxon days has been described thus by Dean Kitchin: "The three Minsters, which filled up the south-eastern corner of the city, were for long the finest group of churches and dwellings in all England.
But at sea the wind had risen; it struck the sail fair and full and drove the ship to shore, and Iseult the Fair set foot upon the land. She heard loud mourning in the streets, and the tolling of bells in the minsters and the chapel towers; she asked the people the meaning of the knell and of their tears. An old man said to her: Lady, we suffer a great grief.
It was the true religion, and there was none other. But to whom belonged the ecclesiastical edifices, the splendid old minsters in the cities raised by the people's confiding piety and the purchased remission of their sins in a bygone age and the humbler but beautiful parish churches in every town and village?
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