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Excerpt from Gloucester Cathedral
Only, when the stranger began to look more closely into the details of the exterior of the great church, he would see signs of an older school of thought. When he examined the coronet of chapels surrounding the soaring choir, or marked the tall towers flanking the transept, Surely, he would say, the Norman builders have done these. But he would hesitate before pronouncing it a Norman church till he passed through the south porch, the principal entrance.
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