Durham Cathedral.

"Durham is the most imposing of English cathedrals, and it stands on the finest of English sites, while structure and site agree and harmonize so well that nature seems to have built a great work of her own just that man's work might complete and crown it. Here we have no steep- pinnacled hill which architecture might adorn but could not really improve. We have a broad promontory with tree-clad sides and - a level top, where a great building of some sort was required by the eye, and where the largest and boldest of churches would seem neither too large nor too bold. Durham's site, in fact, is a lordly pedestal upon which the cathedral sits as a king sits upon a throne made splendid to enhance the royal splendor. No English site except Lincoln's is so grand as this; and on the hill of Lincoln natural beauty does not aid and soften grandeur as it does on St. Cuthbert's promontory." Extract from "English Cathedrals" (Open Library)

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