Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-10-28
salisbury Cathedral, From the NEARBY Lake.

earth on winch they had to build was
too nlarshy TO hear the solidity usually
connected with tower structures, and
they planned and worked with extreme
caution. Giving TO the tower walls the
iglitest possible construction, banding
the parts iA@eniously, and even leaving
within the building the wooden frame
work 10 serve as an additional sup
port. tie builders worked daringly on;
but when they approached the spire
construction they had not tie temerity
O give IL Il thickness of more than two
feet at The base, and of nine inches
from little above the base to the top
most pinnacle.
Within and without they added fly
Z Ing buttresses. Even then the spire
began to lapse from the perpendicular,
1 and TIE worst WAS feared when Il devil
/ alton Of two feet occurred bet since
4 the careful examination made by Sir
Christopher Wren no further signs OF
/ insecurity have appeared.
What Salisbury Cathedral owes to
he magic grace OF its tower and spire
is easier TO realize than to express.
rbe whole building was transformed
4 By the architectural daring which had
enough poetic insight to picture what
/ could be done by Gaping :.n already
beautiful, but somewhat featureless
Structure, by an eXquisitely proper
Toned tower. surmounted by slender
and soaring spire, the highest in Eng
land. Though constructed half i, CEN
furry later than the body of the cathe-
dral, lie tower and spiIe-sO refined
was the artistic perception of these
4 early buiders-were in harmony with
the whole construction, in spite of
81 sir greater display of elaborate and
decorative work.
With marvellous grace this triumph
III curly English art blends nave, choir,
and TRANSCRIPTS, tower and spire, in an
architectural unity that has no COM
Deer within our isles. Here we have
church of one period and of one de-
sign, not, as in most cathedrals, an
epitome in stone of English history
rom Tie Norman on through the ear
~ English and decorated periods to
the perpendicular.
Sohae Human Records.
Seen with effect from the height OF
Salisbury tower is a pleasant pastoral
country, watered by several streams
iollen by some low stretches of downs
id in places luXuriantly wooded; and
here and there are places sacred in
the story OF our literature. Within
he cathedral is bust with tablet in
memory Of Richard Jeffcrics born at
Goate, in Wiltshire.
Less than two miles from Salisbury
is Bememon, village containing the
Clint built parsonage where George
lIefbel1 wrote some of the poems ir
"Ihe Temple" Within the altar rails
OF the little church is Il modest tablet
with lie simple inscription. &c II
lG35,n tie only memosial in Wiltshire
10 'tle sweetest singer that ever sans
Gods praise
Within the cathedral. on the nortf
side of the altar, Ies the body of the
sister whom Sir Pl1ilip Sidney loved IL
visit at Wilton, the ancestral estate o
the Pembroke family, not much more
tran mile 10 the west of Beinerton
! 1t was at Wilton that Sidney wrot,
parts Of his Arcadia" 10 please a.
he put it, his dear lady and sister
the countess Of Pembroke"
! Interesting, too, ere The cloisterS
! not only for The beauty Ct their win
Cow fracery. but for the memories the.
4 enshrine. for among those who lie a
rest in this sanctuary inclosed by tn
cioisters are people whose names tav
I place of honor in the modern rec
? ords of tie Wiltshire minister.