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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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lour, or more strictly speaking to the absence ofright colour. Outside the building Nature has done the exquisite colouringwith her mantle of lichen; internally the present colour-effect is due to suc-cessive generations of men, of whom some have misunderstood, and some haveeven derided the power of colour. As the cathedral has been seen for thelast hundred years, and probably for much longer, the whole effect is too light.Until the restoration of the past fifteen years, when its marble shafts have onceagain begun to gleam with their dark polish, and the vaulting of the roof hasbeen robed in modern polychrome, the dominant effect was universally, asindeed it still is in part, that produced by a kind of buff wash. But it may bedoubted whether we have any idea of the splendour of this interior as its * Tlie design of the faqade, the grouping of the statues, and the stories severally connected witli them are givenat length iu the present writers work entitled The Legend of Christian Art.
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wo< <a. Q < <Q ^ (XDDQ t—(J<CO .1 Salisbury.) COLOUR OF THE JNTERIOR. 12: orio^inators meant it to look. Tlien, no doubt every pillar in the structure,beiiif^ of marble, helped by its dark rich burnish to remove that pale monotonywhich we have found so painful; then, arch and wall and g-roining were fromend to end aflame with vermilion in arabesque and saint and angel; then, everywindow—and the wall of this cathedral is nearly all windows—must have flashedits jewels on the floor. It must have been a magnificent interior then. The giant-artists of the exterior were not so feeble directly they got within the porch.

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