Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
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The Coronation Church of Henry VIII
English cathedrals have gone much higher. I mean, Reims, 123, Amiya, another 10, 15 feet above that. So Henry would have had a reply to that. He said, yes, we're not, haven't gone as high as you. And I think that was partly the constriction of the site, but our church is far more magnificent. The design, I think, was very influenced by the needs of the coronation.
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