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Catedral de Westminster, Londres, Inglaterra, 2022-11-23, DD 43-45 HDR
2022-11-23
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Chapel of St Joseph and the Holy Family in the Westminster Cathedral, City of Westminster, London, England. This cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. It is the largest Catholic church in the UK and the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster. The site on which the cathedral stands in the was purchased by the Diocese of Westminster in 1885, and construction completed in 1903. The temple was designed by John Francis Bentley in neo-Byzantine style, and accordingly made almost entirely of brick, without steel reinforcements, Sir John Betjeman called it "a masterpiece in striped brick and stone" that shows "the good craftsman has no need of steel or concrete."