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Well I have been working on and off on this since 1996, so it is about time I
posted some pictures.... but my Gothic Cathedral is (relatively) complete.
With 20,000 pieces, the cathedral is based on a composite of 4 European
cathedrals (that I have visited). They are Britain's Canterbury Cathedral and
York Minster (ironically the top 2 churches in the hierarchy of The Church of
England), and France's Rheim's Cathedral (located in Champagne province, it was
the coronation church of the French Kings) and Paris's Notre Dame.
Since I started this in 1996 (before Bricklink), I chose red because I had all
the necessary arches (from 35 London Bus sets, and many other basic sets).
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332748
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332749
In the Great East and Great West Windows, I chose a SNOT technique for Gothic
tracery windows that I first saw on Lugnet about 6 years ago (can't remember the
originator). It uses clear bricks and plates, interspersed with red plates.
Unfortuntely the shadow around the arch prevents much of the detail from coming
thru.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332750
The cathedral is about 4 1/2 feet long, with a 6 bay Choir, 1 bay crossing and a
10 bay Nave for a total of 17 bays, plus a chapel at the end of the choir. The
Transept with crossing is 7 bays. The Nave, Choir and Transepts all have 3
aisles. I opted for the square ended English Gothic, rather than the French
Gothic with radiating chapels. The flying buttresses are made from a lot of 1x2
and 1x2 inverse red slopes. And in the crossing tower, the great windows are
made not from clear bricks, but 1x4x2 windshields! Even close up the tower
looks realistic, the windshields in no way detract. I had enough clear bricks
(I think I had 15,000 before Bricklink came online) to do the crossing tower,
but the windshields looked so good, I opted not to use bricks for the windows.
Here is a picture of it while still under construction, with an experimental
spire, which I opted not to use.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332751
In the future I will be building auxilliary buildings, such as a cloister, a
Bishops palace, canon houses, and perhaps some semblence of a fortified
enclosure with a grand gateway.
Also, this cathedral will be pictured on the front of my LEGO CD (but a much
better photo).
Enjoy!
Gary Istok
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| (...) Hi Gary, Do you have any better photos of this? It is almost impossible to see the details of the cathedral and I would very much like to as they all look very interesting. The crossribbing in the two top towers in this pic ((URL)) looks (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| Hello! I like that cathedral. It captures the Gothic building style very well. So I like it both for its architectuural appearance and its more traditional LEGO building style. The choice of red bricks certainly was due to their availabilty but (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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