Dr James Alexander Cameron
@drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com
Freelance art and architectural historian with focus on English medieval churches but love poking around all buildings.
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question is if I try to free Antwerp's great tower from its scaffolding it was trapped in from 2019 and gradually removed through to the end of 2022. Should have done this for my Cathedral Spires project but I was less good at this sort of thing then. I have... a face? Might get it to work
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
question is if I try to free Antwerp's great tower from its scaffolding it was trapped in from 2019 and gradually removed through to the end of 2022. Should have done this for my Cathedral Spires project but I was less good at this sort of thing then. I have... a face? Might get it to work
Imported, cleaned and scaled cathedrals of 1559 Super Universas dioceses and mashed up best bits of the Mechelen models. Some of these only lasted barely only a couple of decades as a cathedral. Main omission is Our Lady, Saint-Omer (and the churches at Bruges and Middelburg that were demolished)
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Imported, cleaned and scaled cathedrals of 1559 Super Universas dioceses and mashed up best bits of the Mechelen models. Some of these only lasted barely only a couple of decades as a cathedral. Main omission is Our Lady, Saint-Omer (and the churches at Bruges and Middelburg that were demolished)
this sketchup model of Ypres seems rather good, after I've fixed some UV/alpha errors on the import into Blender, so we'll see how that looks together in the squad, as it were.
3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/72425d...
3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/72425d...
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
this sketchup model of Ypres seems rather good, after I've fixed some UV/alpha errors on the import into Blender, so we'll see how that looks together in the squad, as it were.
3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/72425d...
3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/72425d...
Aiming to include churches made into cathedrals under 1559 Super Universas bull creating new dioceses in Spanish Netherlands.
Mechelen was annoying as Belgium insisted a prison be censored ruining the E end, but found a model I can amalgamate it with. Now, if only could get a photogram of Ypres...
Mechelen was annoying as Belgium insisted a prison be censored ruining the E end, but found a model I can amalgamate it with. Now, if only could get a photogram of Ypres...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Aiming to include churches made into cathedrals under 1559 Super Universas bull creating new dioceses in Spanish Netherlands.
Mechelen was annoying as Belgium insisted a prison be censored ruining the E end, but found a model I can amalgamate it with. Now, if only could get a photogram of Ypres...
Mechelen was annoying as Belgium insisted a prison be censored ruining the E end, but found a model I can amalgamate it with. Now, if only could get a photogram of Ypres...
really struggling making the big Oseney Abbey project into a video so I'm rebooting this to try to finish it before the end of the year as the teaser said.
Naumburg appeared in G-Earth recently, and can cobble together some more from drone footage. So the Empire good to go as ever. Let's gooo
Naumburg appeared in G-Earth recently, and can cobble together some more from drone footage. So the Empire good to go as ever. Let's gooo
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
really struggling making the big Oseney Abbey project into a video so I'm rebooting this to try to finish it before the end of the year as the teaser said.
Naumburg appeared in G-Earth recently, and can cobble together some more from drone footage. So the Empire good to go as ever. Let's gooo
Naumburg appeared in G-Earth recently, and can cobble together some more from drone footage. So the Empire good to go as ever. Let's gooo
i was thinking it's odd to see a Christus Patiens like this with a gilt jewelled crown on it in the Christus Triumphans Romanesque mode. but then stuff like this way further north -
im not great with figure sculpture
im not great with figure sculpture
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
i was thinking it's odd to see a Christus Patiens like this with a gilt jewelled crown on it in the Christus Triumphans Romanesque mode. but then stuff like this way further north -
im not great with figure sculpture
im not great with figure sculpture
the new San Bartolomeo in Nuova Portis, built 1991. Has the big porch common to medieval churches of the region so I suppose it tracks. Contains some artworks from the old church, including the crucifix which is perhaps late 13thc - like so much round here a clash between north and south traditions.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the new San Bartolomeo in Nuova Portis, built 1991. Has the big porch common to medieval churches of the region so I suppose it tracks. Contains some artworks from the old church, including the crucifix which is perhaps late 13thc - like so much round here a clash between north and south traditions.
a church of the 1976 Friuli earthquake that was not rebuilt: San Bartolomeo, Portis (now Portis Vecchio). Although there was a medieval church here, the building dated from 1861-76. Considered too vulnerable, Portis was built on a new site a little to the N and the church is now a consolidated ruin.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
a church of the 1976 Friuli earthquake that was not rebuilt: San Bartolomeo, Portis (now Portis Vecchio). Although there was a medieval church here, the building dated from 1861-76. Considered too vulnerable, Portis was built on a new site a little to the N and the church is now a consolidated ruin.
I thought we didn't know the precise site of the high altar of Reading? because its east arm is so long it could in a bay under the school or the prison yard. OR, possible, beneath the perimeter wall.
OR it all could have been swept away below pavement level and it's gone and that's that.
OR it all could have been swept away below pavement level and it's gone and that's that.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I thought we didn't know the precise site of the high altar of Reading? because its east arm is so long it could in a bay under the school or the prison yard. OR, possible, beneath the perimeter wall.
OR it all could have been swept away below pavement level and it's gone and that's that.
OR it all could have been swept away below pavement level and it's gone and that's that.
should say as well this build is the new mother house of a Sedevacantist community that teaches at a school in nearby Brooksville.
I don't really understand the Church hierarchy over them but I guess you're not supposed to. Next door to them is a related Sedevacantist parish chapel built in 2006.
I don't really understand the Church hierarchy over them but I guess you're not supposed to. Next door to them is a related Sedevacantist parish chapel built in 2006.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
should say as well this build is the new mother house of a Sedevacantist community that teaches at a school in nearby Brooksville.
I don't really understand the Church hierarchy over them but I guess you're not supposed to. Next door to them is a related Sedevacantist parish chapel built in 2006.
I don't really understand the Church hierarchy over them but I guess you're not supposed to. Next door to them is a related Sedevacantist parish chapel built in 2006.
i suppose all buildings lie to us to a degree - shafts don't really hold up ceilings, ashlar hides messy core - but this all seems a tad shallow. Also I can't stand the transition from the arcade to apse where the wall shaft sticks over the sill and part of its capital is crassly redundant. Argh!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i suppose all buildings lie to us to a degree - shafts don't really hold up ceilings, ashlar hides messy core - but this all seems a tad shallow. Also I can't stand the transition from the arcade to apse where the wall shaft sticks over the sill and part of its capital is crassly redundant. Argh!
but alas no. the vault (the shape of which gives away it isn't real masonry) is a steel frame suspended from the concrete ceiling. Then they cover and render than and add ribs underneath it. Again, Pugin sobs
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
but alas no. the vault (the shape of which gives away it isn't real masonry) is a steel frame suspended from the concrete ceiling. Then they cover and render than and add ribs underneath it. Again, Pugin sobs
if they'd roofed and glazed the building like this it would have been cooler tbh
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
if they'd roofed and glazed the building like this it would have been cooler tbh
The walls are concrete-block masonry but the arches are steel frames covered with plasterboard panels and then clad. I think this would give A.W.N. Pugin a seizure
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The walls are concrete-block masonry but the arches are steel frames covered with plasterboard panels and then clad. I think this would give A.W.N. Pugin a seizure
but, ironically for the trads, it's not the most traditional of builds.The columns are reinforced concrete poured in place, and then clad with prefab cast-limestone cladding.
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
but, ironically for the trads, it's not the most traditional of builds.The columns are reinforced concrete poured in place, and then clad with prefab cast-limestone cladding.
made a rare venture on the Everything App where you are nay but a click away from the most racist thing you've ever seen, but saw this intriguing (yet obvious RETVRN bait) trending video of nuns singing in... some sort of weird-looking church? is it early 19thc French neo-gothic?
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
made a rare venture on the Everything App where you are nay but a click away from the most racist thing you've ever seen, but saw this intriguing (yet obvious RETVRN bait) trending video of nuns singing in... some sort of weird-looking church? is it early 19thc French neo-gothic?
a potential unreadable extreme metal band logo up for grabs here
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
a potential unreadable extreme metal band logo up for grabs here
I went inside here 2015 when it was up for sale. It was listed from 2013 at £1.8M and finally sold 2018 for £1.365M. I have the sale brochure somewhere.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I went inside here 2015 when it was up for sale. It was listed from 2013 at £1.8M and finally sold 2018 for £1.365M. I have the sale brochure somewhere.
this picture sums up quite well a visit to St Stephen's cloister with the whips
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
this picture sums up quite well a visit to St Stephen's cloister with the whips
Case in point: the 1526-9 fan vaulted cloisters of St Stephen's College were always used as the whips' offices. Not been in since 2017 before they stated restoration so not sure what's in there these days. But it was always very weird going in there.
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Case in point: the 1526-9 fan vaulted cloisters of St Stephen's College were always used as the whips' offices. Not been in since 2017 before they stated restoration so not sure what's in there these days. But it was always very weird going in there.
and really what happened to Paris Cathedral isn't a great comparison: that was poor site safety during a restoration project that destroyed the roof structure. A fire here would destroy countless of Barry and Pugin's interiors, attached paintings and relief carvings. It would be a massive loss.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
and really what happened to Paris Cathedral isn't a great comparison: that was poor site safety during a restoration project that destroyed the roof structure. A fire here would destroy countless of Barry and Pugin's interiors, attached paintings and relief carvings. It would be a massive loss.
Thankfully they lifted that to boost slumping visiting numbers when COVID was stopping international travel. You now can take photos, except in the museum in the galleries over the ambulatory (which costs an extra £5).
So you can't take pics like these:
So you can't take pics like these:
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Thankfully they lifted that to boost slumping visiting numbers when COVID was stopping international travel. You now can take photos, except in the museum in the galleries over the ambulatory (which costs an extra £5).
So you can't take pics like these:
So you can't take pics like these:
documented from 1281-2. there's a whole bit about it in BAACT 2017
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
documented from 1281-2. there's a whole bit about it in BAACT 2017
the TTB-Atherton (again!) drawing has a lot of information in it
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the TTB-Atherton (again!) drawing has a lot of information in it
as it is, Westminster Palace and Abbey sits on a gravel terrace deposit of the Thames over alluvium (which in turn is over bedrock, such as it is, of London Clay).
A gifted building platform near London if you can't pump out concrete or drive down piles: but of course vulnerable to sea level rise.
A gifted building platform near London if you can't pump out concrete or drive down piles: but of course vulnerable to sea level rise.
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
as it is, Westminster Palace and Abbey sits on a gravel terrace deposit of the Thames over alluvium (which in turn is over bedrock, such as it is, of London Clay).
A gifted building platform near London if you can't pump out concrete or drive down piles: but of course vulnerable to sea level rise.
A gifted building platform near London if you can't pump out concrete or drive down piles: but of course vulnerable to sea level rise.