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A Pictorial History of Worcester Cathedral. Pitkin. ASIN B0028BVHXI. Morris, Richard (1979). Cathedrals and abbeys of England and Wales: the building church, 600-1540. Dent. ISBN 9780460043342. Swaan, Wim (1988). The Gothic Cathedral. Omega Books. ISBN 978-0-907853-48-0. Swaan, Wim (1988). Art and Architecture of the Late Middle Ages. Omega Books.
Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun Anglican Canterbury 1079 NK 650 170.1 NK NK NK N/A 46 80 4 Willis, Harrison & Harrison Worcester Cathedral: Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Canterbury Cathedral: 1494: Canterbury United Kingdom: Cathedral itself dates from 1077 90.5 m (297 ft) St. Joseph's Church: 1897: Koblenz Germany 90.3 m (296 ft) Nikolo-Berlyukovsky Monastery: 1899: Avdotyino Russia 90.1 m (296 ft) St. Joseph: 1891: Viersen Germany 90.1 m (296 ft) St. Lamberti: 1898: Münster Germany 90.0 m (295 ft) H<75 ...
The crown jewel of French Gothic architecture, Chartres Cathedral was built in just 26 years after a devastating fire in 1194. Its revolutionary west façade, anchored by the iconic Royal Portal ...
Some great churches of the Middle Ages, such as Westminster Abbey, are former abbeys; others like Ripon Cathedral and Bath Abbey were built as monastic churches and became cathedrals or parish churches in recent centuries; others again were built as parish churches and subsequently raised to cathedrals, like Southwark Cathedral. Some ...
However, a dome featured very prominently in Wren's grandest construction, St Paul's Cathedral, the only English cathedral in any permutation of the Classical tradition. The later 17th century saw Baroque architecture – a version of Classicism characterised by heavy massing and ostentatiously elaborate decoration – become widespread in England.
Canterbury Cathedral. Lists of cathedrals in the United Kingdom cover cathedrals, churches that contain the cathedra (Latin for "seat") of a bishop. Cathedrals are usually specific to Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox churches.
The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is set to reopen to visitors beginning Dec. 8, more than five years after an accidental fire destroyed the roof’s iconic 12th-century spires and interior ...