Blowhard, Esq. writes:
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The Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras Railway Station in London, completed in 1873. Designed by George Gilbert Scott who said, “It is possibly too good for its purpose.”
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So many elements borrowed from cathedral architecture.
Don’t know if you have previously addressed this, but could it be that the secular impulse is what is driving the ugly architecture you so often decry? Without God, things start getting ugly!
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>>So many elements borrowed from cathedral architecture.
During the Victorian era Gothic Revival was the dominant architectural style. I’m working on a longer post about it.
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As I’ve returned to the Catholic Church, and become a Church musician again, I’ve had to confront the dilemma that what seems rational is not always what is workable.
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Swoopy enough for me.
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