He says the works there-which have included shoring up a stone retaining wall and restoring an outdoor stone altar-were not only necessary, but a feat.

他说那里的施工——包括加固一面石头护墙，整修一个室外的石头祭坛——不仅必须，而且称得上壮举。

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There was no idol in it, nor image of any kind, but only a mirror of round metal set on an altar of stone.

这里并没有供奉偶像，或是任何有色相的东西，只在石头祭坛上设着一面金属的圆镜子。

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The structure enclosing a stone basin as it was preserved at the centre of the crypt. In the background the altar in the east façade of the the crypt.

这个建筑物包围著一个石盆，它被保存在地窖的中央。照片的背景是一个位于地窖东面的祭台。

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In the church in Stratford-upon-Avon where he is buried, the altar stone had been buried and hidden for safekeeping during the upheavals of the Reformation.

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It was a pagan desire, she thought, and it was a pagan place: a dark garden of yews and straggling roses and, at its center, the stone church, with its altar and its font and, above it all, the bells, suspended in the chill air of the belfry, heavy and still, waiting to be brought to life.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer