His characters, who tend to reside and vegetate in the undramatic flatlands of eastern England, scrape away at the borders of stained-glass windows, fondle the carvings on the end of cathedral stalls, or purchase old engravings; and there, in the course of their daily tasks and hobbies, the trouble starts — "Into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head," he wrote.
1214 35) of the east end of Bourges Cathedral, while four windows (before 1225) at Sens Cathedral are related in composition and ornament to Chartres and Bourges and also have certain stylistic affinities with the contemporary windows at Canterbury Cathedral.
As you walk along, you occasionally glimpse the nave to your right, and, while it is possible to turn and enter the larger space, you are encouraged to keep walking to the end, at which point you turn right and enter the nave from the far end of the cathedral, facing the altar — the spot in a conventional cathedral that you would have entered in the first place.
At this time, the east end of the cathedral church was lengthened, enclosing the parish church of St Faith, which was now brought within the cathedral.
According to art historian John Harvey, it is the first truly Gothic cathedral in the world, its architects having entirely dispensed with all the features that bound the contemporary east end of Canterbury Cathedral and the earlier buildings of France, such as the east end of the Abbey of Saint Denis, to the Romanesque.
On a corner of the eastern end of the cathedral, next to Dun Cow Lane, is a carved stone panel of the cow and a milkmaid showing the way.
"She was a spectacular dame, and I loved her very much," he said, looking down on the vast crowd from the lectern at the east end of Washington National Cathedral.
Tourists visiting Florence today may not realize that the giant bronze doors on the eastern end of the cathedral's Baptistery are not the original "Gates of Paradise" but modern bronze copies made and installed in 1990.
In the Galilee Chapel at the west end of the cathedral lie the bones of the eighth-century scholar, the Venerable Bede, removed from his home town of Jarrow by unscrupulous monks; and behind the main altar is the shrine to St Cuthbert, the seventh-century monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne.
