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Top: Arts: Architecture: Building_Types: Religious: Christian: History: Churches: Cathedrals
| To be listed here a site should contain significant information on the architecture of the building. The sites of operational churches can be listed in Regional in the category for their location and in the relevant category under Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity. Such sites warrant an additional listing here only if they have a notable amount of content of interest to architectural historians. |
A cathedral is a church containing a 'cathedra' or seat of a bishop. It is the head church of his diocese and so is usually a particularly large and magnificent structure.
Cathedrals in France whose architecture mainly dates from the medieval period, whether or not they had cathedral status in that period.
Cathedrals using the architecture of the pointed arch, ribbed vault and flying buttress, which developed in France in the mid 12C and spread through Europe.
Cathedrals built in the 19th or 20th centuries in the style of medieval Gothic.
Cathedrals in any part of Ireland whose architecture mainly dates from the medieval period, whether or not they had cathedral status in that period.
Cathedrals in Italy whose architecture mainly dates from the medieval period.
| To be listed here a site should contain significant information on the architecture of the building. The sites of operational churches can be listed in Regional in the category for their location and in the relevant category under Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity. Such sites warrant an additional listing here only if they have a notable amount of content of interest to architectural historians. |
Churches more than 50 years old within the UK which house the 'cathedra' or seat of a bishop of any denomination. Their history, preservation, study and presentation to the public.
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