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Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool: the lantern tower seen from along a flying buttress

RIBA2553-10
Frederick Gibberd & Partners
NOTES: This building comprises three independent types of structure: an in-situ reinforced concrete frame which holds together the main body of the cathedral; the sixteen load-bearing brick or concrete perimeter buildings, and the flat slab of the outdoor podium supported by concrete columns of load-bearing brick walls.

Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool: pyramid of one of the heavy concrete roofs over Lutyens's cantilvered staircase to the crypt in the foreground with the cathedral behind

RIBA2554-10
Frederick Gibberd & Partners
NOTES: In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to design the second Roman Catholic cathedral to contrast with the Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral of Giles Gilbert Scott being erected on the other end of Hope Street from 1904. Construction on Lutyens's massive structure began in 1933 but was suspended in 1941 due to wartime restrictions. Work recommenced on the crypt in 1956 and it was completed in 1958. Thereafter Lutyens's design was considered onerously expensive and was abandoned with only the crypt complete.

Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool: close-up of the structure from the podium

RIBA2555-10
Frederick Gibberd & Partners
NOTES: This building comprises three independent types of structure: an in-situ reinforced concrete frame which holds together the main body of the cathedral; the sixteen load-bearing brick or concrete perimeter buildings, and the flat slab of the outdoor podium supported by concrete columns of load-bearing brick walls.

Chartres Cathedral: nave flying buttresses

RIBA3477-61
NOTES: Dedicated in 1260, this cathedral is an exemplar of the French High Gothic style.

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Ile de la Cite, Paris

RIBA3772
Lassus, Jean-Baptiste (1807-1857)
NOTES: Construction on the cathedral began in 1163 and was completed c.1345. Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc were responsible for the restoration of Notre Dame in 1841-1863.

Keble College, Oxford: the gateway

RIBA4176
Butterfield, William (1814-1900)

Centennial Hall, Wroclaw

RIBA4327
Berg, Max (1870-1947)

Rendlesham Hall, Suffolk: Woodbridge Lodge

RIBA4942
NOTES: Rendlesham Hall was demolished in 1950 but two of its lodges survive.

Chartres Cathedral: flying buttresses

RIBA5055
NOTES: Dedicated in 1260, this cathedral is an exemplar of the French High Gothic style.

St James the Great, Coln St Dennis, Gloucestershire: the Norman tower

RIBA6699
NOTES: This Norman church dates from the 12th century and has an unaltered ground plan of nave, chancel and central tower, thus retaining most of its original characteristics.

All Saints, North Cerney, Gloucestershire

RIBA6705
NOTES: This cruciform church is essentially Norman in style. An Early English upper stage was added to saddleback west tower when the church was largely rebuilt in the 1470s following a fire. The interior was extensively reburbished by the Gothic Revival architect, Francis Charles Eden, c.1925.

St Catherine, Ludham, Norfolk

RIBA6800
NOTES: This church is mainly 14th century and was completed in the 15th century.
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