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Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc.It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion, partly by innovation and partly by borrowing other architectural styles as well as responding to changing beliefs, practices and local traditions.
This category contains articles about church architecture and related architectural elements, rooms and spaces. This category should not be used for articles about individual buildings. Contents
Aaron Ferrey House, Kent, Ohio, an example of Downing's Form III Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado) Springside in Poughkeepsie, New York Christ Church, Fort Meade, Florida Oak Hill Cottage, Mansfield, Ohio: Carpenter Gothic trim on a brick house in the manner of A.J. Davis's Rural Residences The Seth House in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Built in 1882
The style developed in the Southwest with Pueblo design influences from the indigenous Puebloan peoples architecture. In Alta California , present-day California , the style developed differently, being too far for imported building materials and without skilled builders, into a strong simple version for building the missions between 1769 and 1823.
A building's surface detailing, inside and outside, often includes decorative moulding, and these often contain ogee-shaped profiles—consisting (from low to high) of a concave arc flowing into a convex arc, with vertical ends; if the lower curve is convex and higher one concave, this is known as a Roman ogee, although frequently the terms are used interchangeably and for a variety of other ...