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How medieval Gothic architecture

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Mar 05, 2025
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The nave and Great West Window of Winchester Cathedral, completed c. 1420

Within 150 years, the architectural landscape of medieval Europe had changed. If at the start of the 12th century, all stone buildings in Europe were being built in a style we now call Romanesque (or ‘Norman’ in England), by the 1250s, that style had fallen out of fashion, being re…

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