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Excerpt from Westminster Abbey
Then we turn to the architectural and artistic side of the monument. With the details of the design we are not here concerned; they are treated at length in connection with English mediaeval architecture in general in a larger work of the writer. What is attempted here is something different; it is to get at the fundamentals of the design. The Abbey is a large church, hugely long and enormously tall; why is it so long, so tall, and so narrow? And how was each of these precise dimensions arrived at? And what lies at the bottom of its system of proportions? These and the like are much bigger questions than the foliation of a capital or the contour of a base, and, with whatever success, an attempt has been made to deal with them.
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