"Truro
Cathedral may be accepted as a remarkable representation
of the ambitions and faculties of nineteenth-century
architecture, and as possessing an expression of
culture, blended with no little inventiveness of design. Perhaps its architect missed a grand
opportunity when he abandoned the rough-dressed
granite of the county and in which it is so abundant,
for what has been styled " the cheese-cut Bath stone
of commerce," suitable enough for the somewhat
enervating atmosphere of the city of warm baths,
but alien to the rugged sea-blown diocese of Cornwall."
Extract from "The Cathedrals of England and Wales" (Open Library)
