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Cathedrals: from bishops' seats to tourist hotspots

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Cathedrals of the Eighteenth Century

You can be in a cathedral and feel very eighteenth century. And then there are tremendous traces of the nineteenth century, because some cathedrals nineteenth century. Because one of the things that the victorians did was to rescue cathedrals from comparative neglect by embarking on big programmes of restoration.

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