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CH. xxvn] ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD 215by, but its demolition was begun the next day. Till/ i 111 11 i r chesterthen, there would have been the strange spectacle ot cathedralthree great churches of cathedral size in one enclosure ;Minster, which was not removed to Hyde outside thetown till a little later.1ifor a few yards away, so near that the services of onechurch disturbed those of the other, stood Alfred's New-fti fc : *f&:^ :"fP"fr-^t^3^----'-""'-THE NORMANCATHEDRAL.lT'-w'::'WINCHESTER: EXISTINGCATHEDI^\L.Fig. 129.WINCHESTER cathedral is the longest or the longestits sizebut one in the kingdom, but Walkelyn's west frontreached 40 ft. still further westward (Fig. 129)*Itsgigantic proportions were probably occasioned by the