"Peterborough Cathedral - one of the finest Romanesque Cathedrals in northern Europe - was subjected to the ravages of fire on 22 November 2001. This was all the more tragic as it came at the end of a five-year programme of restoration. The first part of the present book is a personal account of the process of restoring the Cathedral after that devastating event, illustrated with colour photographs from the day of the fire, through the restoration process, to the Festival of Thanksgiving four years later."--BOOK JACKET.