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Updated: May 17, 2025
The height under the keystone is one hundred feet. The breadth, including the aisles, is seventy eight feet; viz: thirty four feet for the nave, and twenty two feet for each aisle. The transept is one hundred and thirty feet in length, by thirty four in width. The church is lighted by one hundred and twenty five windows placed in three rows not including the three rosaces.
In the northern and southern extremity of the transept two handsome rosaces, above a row of lancet windows, let in the outside light through stained panes. The impression produced by the interior of the cathedral is greatly superior to that received from without.
Here and there the path was hemmed in by holly, that grew in quaint forms like cunningly wrought metal work, gratings of blackened bronze, wrought iron, and polished copper, elaborately ornamented, covered with prickly rosaces. And before reaching the springs, they had to pass through a pine-wood. Its shadow seemed to weigh upon their shoulders like lead.
At all times the light is of an unearthly softness and purity, toned by the exquisite windows and rosaces.
Not the poor railing to which we give that name, but projecting parapets of stone, pierced into trefoils, quatrefoils, rosaces, cusps, brackets, balustrades sometimes running across the whole house-front, more often guarding a single window, itself lofty, arched, mullioned and rich with tracery.
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