In search of Spalding Priory
An investigation into the site of the 38th richest monastery in England, which is almost entirely forgotten
Stained Glass Attitudes
Fondly uttered platitudes on art and architecture | Dr James Alexander Cameron
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Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: the Super Universas cathedrals of the Spanish Netherlands
The ecclesiastical provinces of the Spanish Netherlands were reformed by a bull of 1559 creating 14 new dioceses. This post looks at their newly-made cathedrals in their wider political and architectural context
Reimaging Glastonbury Abbey and other recreation videos
Just to pop on the ol’ website that I have here, that I put together this in the 3D animation program Blender recently: a rendered recreation of the great church of Glastonbury Abbey, England’s wealthiest monastery (by gross income at least by 1535) and one of the very last to be suppressed by the Crown, […]
A Cathedral on Mars: the church in episode 5 of Cowboy Bebop and its relation to Chartres
A look at the background design of a church in the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop, which is based on Chartres Cathedral in a surprising number of aspects.
Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: The full fleet of the Latin Church
So here is the ultimate outcome of the Spacefleet Ecclesiastica project as begun just over two years ago in September 2020: a map of every cathedral in the medieval Latin Church. Of course there’s a certain elasticity to the definition of “medieval” here: the Latin bishops’ seats in the Crusader States and Greenland were long […]
Spacefleet Ecclesiastica Outremer: Latin Cathedrals of the Crusader States
The final instalment of all of the medieval Latin cathedrals has to conclude with the bishoprics that were established in the Crusader States that existed from 1098-1291. How many cathedrals are left? What did they look like? Well, there’s a few factors that stop there being a straight-forward answer to that question… It ought to […]
Video: Steeples size comparison
This has been a long time in development, but finally, despite ending up with a nearly unmanageable project file (1.3 gigabytes, excluding textures!), here it is, just in time for 2022! So, here’s some director’s commentary, as it were. I realised that a height comparison makes no sense without a ground, so after flirting with […]
Cathedral Frontiers: The Outer Rim of the medieval Latin Church
So here I hurdle towards completing the second (and I’m pinning it to the wall as FINAL) global pandemic project of finding every medieval cathedral in the Latin Church. Here I combine the Balkans, central Europe, the Baltic, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia as a frontier that stretches from the Dnieper to the Americas to tidy […]
Spacefleet Ecclesiastica: Tutti i Duomi d’Italia
How many cathedrals does Italy have? Far too many. How hard is it to sum them up? Basically impossible, but here we go.
Video: Spacefleet Italia
Sixty-one medieval and Renaissance great churches... in space!