Property News · January 6, 2017

Let’s move to Durham, County Durham


As buildings go, Durham Cathedral is as good as it gets What’s going for it? Is it silly to move somewhere just because of one building? I think I could, you know. I’m an archi-geek, so perhaps more predisposed to being intoxicated by a smashing guildhall or a stately home. But still: Durham Cathedral, what a place. As buildings go, this is as good as it gets, equal to the Alhambra, the Pantheon or the Parthenon. Walk in and you’re beamed back to a time of monks and border raids, when Durham was the heart of a rather different northern powerhouse. I could move my bed, desk and a Baby Belling into the north aisle this second, though I doubt the bishop (or my wife, or my kids) would approve. The cathedral does dominate the city. Without it, Durham would be a pleasant, undemanding market town, albeit beautifully sited on a wooded loop of the river Wear and with a fine university attached. With it, though… Wow! But madness, right? Right?The case against It’s a small city, constrained by its geography, so urbanites might get bored. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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