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window itself, as you look upward, or rather as you fix your eye upon the
center of it, from the remote end of the abbey, or the Lady's Chapel, was
a perfect blaze of dazzling light; and nave, choir, and side aisles seemed
magically illumined. We declared instinctively that the Abbey of St. Ouen
could hardly have a rival--certainly not a superior.
Let me, however, put in a word for the organ. It is immense, and perhaps
larger than that belonging to the cathedral. The tin pipes (like those of
the organ in the cathedral) are of their natural color. I paced the
pavement beneath, and think that this organ can not be short of forty
English feet in length. Indeed, in all the churches which I have yet seen,
the organs strike me as being of magnificent dimensions.
You should be informed, however, that the extreme length of the interior,
from the further end of the chapel of the Virgin, to its opposite western
extremity, is about four hundred and fifty English feet; while the height,
from the pavement to the roof of the nave, or the choir, is one hundred
and eight English feet.
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