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The Scott Monument is a huge, stone Gothic structure with four buttresses supporting a spire.
Wander high above the city turmoil under the flying buttresses and around the statues (2,245 in all) and forest of pinnacles (135), up to the roof-ridge for an unbeatable view of the city.
Try to arrive as the chapel opens or at sunset (see page 39) and make your way to the upper level, where light blazes in through 15 stained-glass windows separated by buttresses so slim that there seems to be no wall at all.
Densely packed buttresses facing seaward create an extraordinary effect of power and beauty, especially when they blaze like gold in the setting sun and cast their reflection in the pool below.
Martin buttresses his case with one of the poorest spokesmen imaginable: Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister.