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Tintern Abbey is the most successful Gothic cathedral because it is all structure and no enclosures: the light is everything and there is no mediation between individuals and their experience of the “divine”.
It’s only through decay that the program of [the] Gothic is truly realized.](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tintern_Abbey_Interior_1900.jpg)
Tintern Abbey is the most successful Gothic cathedral because it is all structure and no enclosures: the light is everything and there is no mediation between individuals and their experience of the “divine”.
It’s only through decay that the program of [the] Gothic is truly realized.
