"I had forgotten how palatial is that vast dome of a narthex and...

"I had forgotten how palatial is that vast dome of a narthex and a church – like a hollow meadow found in the midst of a grove of ancient trees, reaching up towards heaven into murky depths where great beams are dimly glimpsed and the tiny patterings of a sparrow or a bat echo in the campaniles."
— from the novel SINFUL FOLK
PHOTO: (( The candle marking where Saint Thomas a’Beckett was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170 ))