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Title: The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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pressive by sculpture. Its archi-tectural work has been restored, but moderately ; the statuary,placed in four rows of canopied niches across the front, exceptwhere windows intervene, shows possibly a dozen of the ancientfigures, carefully repaired. The numerous other statues arenew, and fresh light-brown in contrast with the iron-gray walls.Christ seated in Judgment occupies the highest niche in thegreat gable; over the main door are saints,— George, Margaret,Barbara, Bartholomew, and Catharine of Alexandria. Immensegroups, like those on some of the French cathedrals, are lacking,yet ranks of the great confessors of the faith stand here arrayed,like the advancing leaders of the church militant, to meet andwelcome coming worshippers. The interior has undergone great changes for the better inthe last five and twenty years. When the writer first saw it, itlooked bare and cold, and was made almost dismal by a coat ofdingy, monotonous whitewash given it in the dark ages, a hun- Ill If J
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SALISBURY. 127 dred years ago, when light was sought by such devices. Atthat period England had grown stupid, cold, and wicked. Sheoverworked her children, bought slaves, and tried to tax Amer-ica. Then judgments were sent on her, and among them was aman named James Wyatt. He smashed tombs and altars, flungthe rich old glass by cart-loads into the town ditch, bedaubed thewalls with his mean monochrome, and in other ways committedoutrages upon this glorious church. He also tried his hand atHereford and elsewhere. An age with men of living faith isnow removing traces of his presence, and in five visits in asmany years, the writer has enjoyed and watched the transfor-mation they have wrought throughout the whole interior, fromthe Lady Chapel to the western front and great north porch. The great north porch, an English feature, near the westernfront, is here one of the best in England. It is a deep, high,gabled archway, bordered inside by arcades of tracery, all ofwhich had become much de

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