It has not the rich sombre majesty, the dim religious light and heavy vault-like atmosphere of the other great fanes.

So airy and light is it that it is almost like being out of doors.

You do not experience that instantaneous change, as of a curtain being drawn excluding the light and air of day and of being shut in, which you have on entering other religious houses.

This is due, first, to the vast size of the interior, the immense length of the nave, and the unobstructed view one has inside owing to the removal by the "vandal" Wyatt of the old ponderous stone screen--an act for which I bless while all others curse his memory; secondly, to the comparatively small amount of stained glass there is to intercept the light.

So graceful and beautiful is the interior that it can bear the light, and light suits it best, just as a twilight best suits Exeter and Winchester and other cathedrals with heavy sculptured roofs.