Medieval Architecture Gallery

Tower of London & Tower Bridge 21766_20

TOWER OF LONDON, TOWER BRIDGE & GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY BUILDING, London. Aerial view. The new Greater London Authority offices, designed by Foster & Partners, 1998-2002, stand across the River Thames from the Tower of London, from which the country was governed for so long during the medieval period

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St Giles Cripplegate JLP01_08_068844

ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE, FORE STREET, City of London. An exterior view from the north-east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate, a medieval gothic church on the Barbican development site.
St Giles-without-Cripplegate church lies at the heart of the modern Barbican complex. The church was built in 1394 on the site of a previous Saxon and Norman church. St Giles church was badly damaged by bombing during World War Two, and has since been fully restored. In 1950, the church was designated as a Grade I listed building

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Coventry Cathedral UXC01_01_01_0007_07

Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael, Bailey Lane, Coventry, Coventry, Coventry. A view of the spire of the ruined St Michael's Cathedral Church, seen from inside the ruins, looking west with the top of the Holy Trinity Church spire in the background. The church was one of the largest medieval parish churches and was made a cathedral in 1918. the damage was caused by an air raid in November 1940. Photographed by Ursula Clark after 1955

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