Carter was conscious of the historic values of the Cathedral, but the visual effect, the picturesqueness and the sublimity seemed to him as important if not more. In the case of the Galilee, he emphasized its structural support to the church - exaggerating somewhat, because it was the Chapel itself that had needed buttresses in the past. He predicted that when “it was no more, the church, to which It was (I consider) one vast Buttress, would fall a stupendous Ruin!” (49)