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28-Dec-2013

the chancel - facing the altar and east window

This must be one of the most dramatic architectural spaces in England. If describing the structure as 'soaring', the comparison is to the wingspread of birds at home in the ether; the vaulting does not seem to be earthbound or generated from the ground upwards. The reduction to the bare essential of physical structure opens the way to the spiritual world in way I only know similarly demonstrated in the great Adagios of Mahler in his 3rd, 9th & 10th symphonies, where a few widely spaced tones reach for heaven unsupported by orchestration. I suppose one can try to confine it to the boundaries of photography a hundred times without fully succeeding.


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