Glasgow Cathedral.
"This stupendous and magnificent
Cathedral was erected in the great age of ecclesiastical architecture, and completed in the noontide of its glory and grandeur. For the most part it was built during the Lancet
period; its crypt is Early English; the spire, nave, chapter-
house, and transept-crypt, being either Late Decorated or
Flamboyant. It is an imposing dusky fabric, stately, solemn,
solid, and venerable, elevated on the brink of a ravine, gloomy,
and of peculiar character, through which flows the rivulet
Molendinar : the precinct is in the north-east quarter of the
city, in the Townhead, and at the upper end of the High
Street, from which an open space of cemetery, surrounded by
high walls, wholly sequesters it."
Extract from "Cathedrals of the United Kingdom" (Open Library)
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