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![[Picture: 932.—Salisbury]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0932-Salisbury/0932-Salisbury-q75-239x200.jpg "[Picture: 932.—Salisbury]")
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932.—Salisbury, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England more
cathedrals, cityscapes, views, buildings, exteriors, spires, towers, churches
Some people with spears and axes stand (or in one case sit) in the foreground, while in the background, behind the city walls and the city, looms the great cathedral. To the side and above, the sun’s rays make stripes in the sky.
This picture shows how the cathedral loomed over the rest of the city even as late as 1840 when this picture was made. Making the cathedral black and the buildings white has emphasized the contrast even more, but it is still true in many English cities that the cathedral, like a shopping mall in North America, is the focal point and can be seen from all around.
[Salisbury Cathedral] stands pre-eminent among English ecclesiastical edifices for the symmetry of its proportions, the harmonious adjustment of its various parts, the elaborate richness of its members, and the grandeur of the whole. (Fig. 932.) A building of more chaste splendour, or more nearly approaching perfection, is scarcely within reach of the imagination. (p. 258)
