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...
it's going to be ordered by geography. possibly for my benefit as much as anyone else's. but I'm determined to make it exist.
it's gonna be great. it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great. it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great.
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
it's going to be ordered by geography. possibly for my benefit as much as anyone else's. but I'm determined to make it exist.
it's gonna be great. it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great. it's gonna be great.
it's gonna be great.
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 think it's basically the same. There are some early maps in this PDF
www.readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...
www.readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think it's basically the same. There are some early maps in this PDF
www.readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...
www.readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Interestingly it's The Dorset Museum in Dorchester that's stepped in to fundraise in a very short space of time
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
The Master of the Sherborne Almshouse Triptych - Dorset Museum & Art Gallery Shop
Help Us Save a Once-in-a-Lifetime Medieval Masterpiece Support us in securing one of the most extraordinary artworks to appear in the UK in decades: The Master of the Sherborne Almshouse Triptych, a b...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Interestingly it's The Dorset Museum in Dorchester that's stepped in to fundraise in a very short space of time
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
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.
i shouldn't be so mean really. in Florida, drywall on steel studs is basically vernacular architecture right
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
i shouldn't be so mean really. in Florida, drywall on steel studs is basically vernacular architecture right
ripon's crossing makes aesthetic sense in a way... this is just bad. or it's just so you can run wires down through the space behind the plaster panels maybe
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
ripon's crossing makes aesthetic sense in a way... this is just bad. or it's just so you can run wires down through the space behind the plaster panels maybe
That was mostly shot on a built set at the backlot of Pinewood (Bucks.)? I mean this a bit hardier, but some ways it is a bit like a movie set than a real building.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
That was mostly shot on a built set at the backlot of Pinewood (Bucks.)? I mean this a bit hardier, but some ways it is a bit like a movie set than a real building.
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.
Well, turns out it's a church near Brookville, Florida, begun early 2019! Here is the video, which of course he could have just linked to as well but, gotta steal that engagement for yourself I suppose.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxbc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxbc...
Full Version: Chant of the Easter Sequence by Sisters of Aquinas. Victimae Paschali Laudes.
YouTube video by Sisters of Aquinas
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Well, turns out it's a church near Brookville, Florida, begun early 2019! Here is the video, which of course he could have just linked to as well but, gotta steal that engagement for yourself I suppose.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxbc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxbc...
oh no politics! well i try not to bother, but it is everywhere, affecting everything, including buildings, isn't it
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
oh no politics! well i try not to bother, but it is everywhere, affecting everything, including buildings, isn't it
the last Mercury Music Prize winner was from North Shields. you'd think the culture secretary would know something like that before pulling all the uwu smol bean Norf crap in an interview: Boris Johnson's "levelling up" nonsense reheated.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
the last Mercury Music Prize winner was from North Shields. you'd think the culture secretary would know something like that before pulling all the uwu smol bean Norf crap in an interview: Boris Johnson's "levelling up" nonsense reheated.