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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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Gloucester Cathedral Old Print - Wallpaper Version The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

A version ofPlate IIIwithout the border, scaled very slightly to make a computer desktop or wallpaper image.

Keywords: cathedrals, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Plate XX. Flying Buttresses. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

A caption identifies this asPlate xx(although on the image, in the upper right, the text Pl. LXIII appears, along with a reproduction of a French library stamp). The caption reads as follows:Drawings [...]

Keywords: churches, diagrams, cathedrals, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-05-04

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Plate XXII. Ely Cathedral. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Ely Cathedral once stood on an island in the marshes; you can still see it for miles around in any direction. It’s old, very old, and in the days before electric light even the great octagonal tower m [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, people, colour

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Plate XXV. The Cloisters, Norwich Cathedral. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Cloisters; a man leads a dog through them, presumably to give a sense of scale. The arches of the vaulted ceiling are prominent. On the left there is a graveyard.

Keywords: churches, gothic, gravestones, churchyards, arches, windows, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2004-05-04

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Plate XXVII. Hereford Cathedral. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

South West View with Cloisters.“At Hereford, where the present tower was built in the fourteenth century, there was also, as in some large monastic churches, a tall tower above the western bay of the [...]

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

Places shown: Hereford; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2004-06-01

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Plate XXVI: Lincoln Cathedral. West Front. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

The See of Lincoln was formed in AD 678, but the first cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1185. The present building dates from between AD 1255 and AD 1300, with late Normon, Lancet-Pointed a [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, people, churches, towers, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-08-06

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