Salisbury Cathedral.

"The last time that Pugin was in Salisbury he stood at the window of a house overlooking the cathedral and exclaimed, "Well, I have traveled all over Europe in search of architecture, but I have seen nothing like this." There is ample justification for such a verdict. The structure itself is vast; the clear space around is probably without a parallel ; the spire is exceptional both for its elegance and its height ; the colour is determined by the same lichen that has grown through the same generations over the entire mass, and in those gray walls rising out of the greensward, the impression undoubtedly is conveyed that there are points in which Salisbury Cathedral stands without a rival in the world." Extract from "Westminster Abbey and the Cathedrals of England" (Open Library)

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