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Look closely at this column.
I saw it outside St.Albans Cathedral. The guide, the wonderful, lively Gail Thomas, told us that she has once been to Trondheim and visited Nidaros cathedral. There she saw a quite similar column, and in Nidaros it is called The Lincoln Column.
We know that during the golden area of cathedral buildings, workers and artists travelled all over Europe, offering their skills (have you read Ken Follett´s Pillars of the Earth?). So probably a stone mason from Lincold has been both in Trondheim and in St.Albans.
I must read Pillars of the Earth again. It is a masterpiece of a book, thich as a brick stone, once you start it is hard to put down. Once I sat in Durham cathedral reading pages from it, and when I lifted my eyes I could see the workers and artists working their ways through the centuries.
I am on my way to England again. Lucky, lucky me :-)
In my purse I have a book from 1954, The East of England, An Artist´s Journey Through English Landscapes. by Sydney R. Jones.
Here is what I read about St.Albans:
Within the outer environs of London there is no more fascinating town than this one. It offers historic streets, inns, houses, the Clock Tower and Abbey gatehouse, the second longest cathedral nave in Europe capped with a Roman brick tower, walls of the first Roman city, Verulaminum, and the place of At.Albans martyrdom.
This time I am not going to St.Albans, nor to Bath,
but to.......
well, come back and you´ll find out ;-)
See you there.
