How can I best describe Westminster Abbey? For lack of any other description, the church represents a piece of "living history". Learning that the oldest sections of the building are nearly a thousand years old was simply staggering to the imagination. It was perhaps even more miraculous to me that the church managed to survive the numerous conflicts in England throughout the centuries, including the relatively "recent" German bombing raids of the Blitz during the Second World War.I found myself just constantly staring in awe at the sheer amount of intricate detail that was built into every aspect of the church, from the grandest stained glass window to the tiniest ornamentation on a choir stall--and to consider that the church and abbey were built entirely by hand, with no computers, automation, or machinery of any kind, makes it all the more incredible to behold. It infuses Westminster Abbey with an almost human quality, which truly makes it a piece of living history.
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