Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban, 400 ft. above the city of Washington. Less pretentious and less costly than Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will nevertheless with 71,000 square feet of floor space exceed...
...speed limit and each student was fined $10. Tourists traveling east or west must of necessity pass through this hamlet and I would suggest that they "pass right through" thereby demon- strating to merchants that a change in their policy of persecution would be to their advantage. C. G. ABBEY...
...library? You would never recognize it when you saw it. Enter it-pass through a bastard version of the west portal of an abbey. Continue down the main hall, which is a precise copy of a nave with five bays. Observe the massive and unnecessary piers, the inconvenient but orthodox side aisles, the lofty transepts bristling with sanctity above and serial catalogues below. Advance to the high altar-a $25,000 book delivery desk; overhead, admire the rood screen, of utmost complexity and facility at catching dust, which has been cleverly placed to hide the important library clock from view...
...born in New York, and went afterwards to London, has been the center of much discussion recently as a result of his weird, futuristic figures in Hyde Park and Public buildings in London. Erie Gill is another exceptionally good seulptuler, who now has one of his works in Westminster Abbey, London...
...scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always in the Grand Manner, highly symbolical...