Peterborough Cathedral II
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Author : William Morris

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      I am glad your correspondent `Muratore' agrees with me in deprecating the
      rebuilding of the west front of Peterborough [Cathedral]. As to the rest of his
      letter, I find some difficulty in understanding it, and more still in understanding
      why he should have taken the trouble to write it. It is proverbially difficult to
      argue about matters of taste; but the combination in one mind of the study (and
      perhaps consequent knowledge) of architecture with contempt for the west
      front of Peterborough [Cathedral] must point to such a rarity as almost to amount
      to a monstrosity. I can only wish that the fabric of that lovely work of art were
      as safe from the attacks of restorers as its reputation for beauty is from those of
      such a very queer critic as your correspondent `Muratore' has shown himself.
    
    
      Letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, 20 September 1889. 
    


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     Peterborough Cathedral II -- Added : February 25, 2021

     Peterborough Cathedral II -- Updated : January 08, 2022

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