Sunday, June 24, 1838

1838

June

Sunday 24

7 25/..

11 50/..

Very fine morning.  Up at 6 40/.. for 20 minutes, then went to bed again till 7 25/.. – Fahrenheit 69° and very fine morning at 8 1/2 –

Writing out journal till breakfast at 10 – Josephine went to mass – Ann and I read prayers at 11 (had George up) in 1/2 hour – Then left Ann to write in the salon, and I came to my room, and wrote till 5, have written up my journal down to 3/4 of Friday – Dinner at 5 to 6 –

Ann and I out at 6 1/2 to see the cathedral – Sauntered through the old church (the nave still fine and perfect), now the hotel de St. Julien, and thence direct to the Cathedral.  Looked about us a little and just got into the Cathedral before the rain and thunder and lightning came –

In the cathedral from 7 to 8 – Several people taking shelter there besides ourselves – The lightning illuminated the church – Very heavy rain – Abated a little and came home in 10 minutes during this rather abated rain, and did not get wet – (parasols and shawls kept the wet off) – Had hardly got in before the storm came on again and continued after 10 p.m. –

Fine cathedral – Plain gothic interior and very handsome – The glass of the whole of the choir and apse, the west end and 2 transept ends, richly painted – The organ at the South end of South transept blocking 1/2 the fine painted rosace window – An altar at the north end of transept and a tall stone pillar prop up against the centre of the great arch over the fine painted rosace window –

Never saw so light a nave – so bewindowed a church – The back of the gallery above the nave-aisle arches and all round the church at this level is windows – This has a very striking effect – I never remember to have seen the like before – One looks up and sees all the flying buttresses, and the top 1/2 the church seems all windows –

Got all ready for being off at 6 a.m. tomorrow, and then till 11 25/.. had written to thus far to my great pleasure –

It seems now to be fair – The thunder and lightning seemed to cease about 9 p.m. – Fahrenheit 60 3/4° now at 11 25/.. p.m.


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/21/0128


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