Cathedrals
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The 50 Greatest Churches and Cathedrals
Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world's towns and cities. Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterbury, St Paul's, Chartres and St Stephen's in Vienna dominate their skylines. Others surprise by their statistics: Salisbury has Britain's tallest spire, Wells the largest display of medieval sculptures in the world, while King's College Chapel in Cambridge boasts the largest fan vaulting in existence. Not all are ancient: Dresden's reconstructed Frauenkirche opened in 2005 and Gaudi's masterpiece in Barcelona is still under construction. Award-winning travel writer Sue Dobson gives us a highly personal tour of their highlights.
Cathedrals
The hugh cathedrals of the world are unmatched in their variety and the daring of their construction, with their dazzling facades, imposing towers and intricate and often bizarre sculptural detail. Add to this unrivalled beauty the painstaking quality of their craftsmanship in stone, glass and wood, and the result is the finest building in any city, combining in its soaring structure centuries of history with the embodiment of the spirit of the Middle ages. This new, highly illustrated handbook is a tribute bringing vividly alive these monuments of worship, concentrating on those of western Europe, showing their changing styles and giving a graphic account of the influences which formed them, as a well as their architecture.
