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#GothicArchitecture meets sacred #EnglishHeritage at #WestminsterAbbey. Britain's #CoronationChurch since #WilliamtheConqueror in 1066, the #Abbey was founded by #BenedictineMonks in 960 & rebuilt in 1245 by King #HenryIII to inc. #FrenchGothic styles. The soaring 30m #Nave, pointed arches, ribbed vaults & luminous rose windows, create England's most sublime sacred space.
In Source: Westminster Abbey
#NormanArchitecture meets #MedievalFortress engineering at the #TowerofLondon. Built by #WilliamtheConqueror in 1097, the White Tower's revolutionary #NormanKeep features Kentish #Ragstone with imported #CaenStone, 15ft-thick walls rising 90ft above the #RiverThames. Its revolutionary fortress design, which was unprecedented in England at the time, symbolised #Norman rule.
In Source: Tower of London
Open to visitors & prayer #StClementDanesChurch was 1st built a 1000 years ago by #WilliamTheConqueror & again in the Middle Ages. Destroyed by the Great Fire of #London in 1666, the #Church standing today was completed in 1682 by #Architect Sir #ChristopherWren. Gutted during the #Blitz of #WW2 it was restored by the #RAF & re-consecrated in 1958. #StrandAldwych
In Source: St Clement Danes
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