But whence came the earlier formularies themselves, from which Cranmer and the rest Quarried the stone for the new building?
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
If I had had occasion for more facts I daresay I should have taken the necessary steps to get hold of them, but there was no difficulty on this score; every text-book supplied me with all, and more than all, I wanted; my complaint was that the facts which Mr. Darwin supplied would not bear the construction he tried to put upon them; I tried, therefore, to make them bear another which seemed at once more sound and more commodious; rightly or wrongly I set up as a builder, not as a burner of bricks, and the complaint so often brought against me of not having made experiments is about as reasonable as complaint against an architect on the score of his not having Quarried with his own hands a single one of the stones which he has used in building.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
It is built in its modern form of a soft gray stone which was Quarried near the town, but the older walls and foundation date back many centuries, it being the restoration of a much more ancient church which was partially destroyed by fire in the year 1719. For many centuries carving in stone and wood has been a specialty in Scandinavia.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou