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erie CHURCHES 211 I have never heard adeguate praise bestowed on the flower wreaths in carved stone which so greatly adorn the spandrels of the vaulting. Their extraordinary variety is only one of their many claims on our admiration. The completeness of St. Paul’s places it at the head of English 9 , Ér: af = a nd a whi a A d a ' b t ; . j 1 i NI e ; aza § ‘ — a i | : «- @s a = e " i ee? -_ a 4 1 i iy tH) qari, cathedrals. In this respect only Salisbury can compete with it; but, much as one must admire Salisbury, it is wanting in the dignity which b hl a | — | iF characterises St. Paul’s. Wren never = — dán ú ells d I haj te. for a moment seems to have for gotten, in the presence of the enor. mous mass of his design, the minST. MARY'S CHURCH, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET ae —— ie etre úr = szil —_— = — = _— 7 i te 2, a Ce mát ii pg — =
