Items matching gothic architecture (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Cathedral o Messina South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Plate II. Canterbury Cathedral. South West View. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Canterbury Cathedral Church, pictured here under a rather dramatic and gloomy sky, burned down in 1174, and was rebuilt as shown here; the building work was finished in the year 1184.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Plate III. Gloucester Cathedral. West Front and South Side. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Gloucester Cathedral was built 900 years ago (it was completed in 1100); it was originally the Abbey of St. Peter, part of a Benedictine monastery. Here we see the towers and spires, the gothic windo [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, windows, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Gable End, Shrewsbury. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

The gable-end post is at one end of the roof; this one has a figure, probably female, on the top, standing on a face, with a coiled rope carved beneath that, and a smiling bearded man’s face at the bo [...]

Keywords: gothic architecture, architecture, carving, statuary, faces, beards, greyscale

Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England

Added: 2012-06-27

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s Street The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with bir [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, streets, cars, buildings, cities, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, xmas, christmas, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2010-08-12

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929.—North West View of Salisbury Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The bishopric of Salisbury was created by the union of the sets of Wilton and Sherbourne, which was done by order of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1075. [...] The ceremony of laying the found [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, towers, spires, windows, gothic architecture, people, arches, roofs, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2011-06-11

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934.—Gable Crosses. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Crosses from the gables at the ends of the roof of Salisbury Cathedral. There are three crosses in the picture, so I have marked it as being for Christmas, or for Epiphany or even Easter perhaps, beca [...]

Keywords: crosses, stonework, gothic architecture, carving, christmas, xmas, easter, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; English

Added: 2012-12-01

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The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral. English Cathedrals (1910)

At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The West Front, From the Minster-yard. English Cathedrals (1910)

The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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