Summary
Although voices were raised in the 1950s for the completion of the cathedral in a modern style, [Stephen Dykes Bower] was of the generation that saw in modernism a needless disruption of the fertile continuity of stylistic tradition. He preferred his work not to be thought of as 'Gothic Revival' but simply as 'Gothic'. His knowledge of the whole Gothic continuum, from the Middle Ages to the early 20th-century work of Temple Moore and F.C.
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Triumph of Tenacity
If you are driving along the A14 coming west towards Cambridge, the tower of Bury St Edmunds cathedral suddenly pops up on the skyline at a bend in the road. I saw it this way in March, when the pinnacles, battlements and ogee windows first emerged from plastic ...
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