Some 150 workers have been vacuuming dust from roads, benches and other surfaces, including the great cathedral esplanade, before blasting them with detergent.

Everything was in its proper place, with a kind of neoclassical crispness - but that place sometimes seemed like a great cathedral, filled with the chorus's antiphonal waftings.

You have the passion of this great cathedral, this temple of the art and craft of rugby.

But we have no such guarantee for most of our other great cathedral choirs.

Improvements and modifications of the great cathedral have in a sense lessened its internal value.