When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. St Paul's Cathedral - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's_Cathedral

    St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, is an Anglican cathedral in London, ... William Dickinson's plan for the floor paving (1709 ...

  3. Architecture of cathedrals and great churches - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_cathedrals...

    This type of plan was also to later play a part in the development of church architecture in Western Europe, most notably in Bramante's plan for St Peter's Basilica [3] [11] [better source needed] and Christopher Wren's design for St Paul's Cathedral. Most cathedrals and great churches have a cruciform groundplan.

  4. Cathedral floorplan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_floorplan

    Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.

  5. Church architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_architecture

    The octagonal floor plan offers good visibility as well as a rigid structure allowing a relatively wide ... A second example is the current St Paul's Cathedral in London.

  6. List of largest church buildings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_church...

    One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft). The main spire is 87 metres (285 ft) high. [citation needed] Basilica of St. John the Baptist: 2,135 [citation needed] 64,040 [100] 1839–1855 St. John's Canada

  7. Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_the...

    Four other churches are associated with this tradition: St John the Baptist's Church, Chester, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Bath Abbey and the destroyed Benedictine Abbey of Coventry. The collegiate church of St John in Chester was raised to cathedral status in 1075, but became a co-cathedral in 1102, when the see was removed to Coventry ...

  8. Protected view - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_view

    View of St Paul's Cathedral from King Henry's Mound (before the construction of Manhattan Loft Gardens behind the cathedral in 2016).. A protected view or protected vista is the legal requirement within urban planning to preserve the view of a specific place or historic building from another location.

  9. Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Paul...

    The second building still proved to be too small for the needs of the diocese, so he started plans for a third cathedral in 1853. Construction of the building, at the corner of St. Peter and Sixth Streets in Downtown St. Paul, started in 1854 and was completed in 1858, having been delayed by the Panic of 1857 and Crétin's death. The third ...