Gloucester Cathedral.

"The cathedral of Gloucester is more than ordinarily interesting, as being one of the very few conventual churches of the highest class which escaped the havoc of the Dissolution. Its rulers appear to have been perpetually attentive to the repairs and decorations of their church, and to have employed artists of singular skill and abilities at every period. Hence it happens, not only that specimens of every variety of style from the severest Anglo-Norman to the richest Perpendicular are to be found in this cathedral, but that these specimens are all very perfect of their kind; and that the assemblage of the whole, though successively erected during a period of four hundred years, is grand and harmonious. Extract from "The Cathedrals of England and Wales" (Open Library)

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