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PMR-D6663 Northern Ireland, Belfast: "Rise" is the name given to this sculpture by Wolfgang Buttress which stands in the centre of the Broadway roundabout at the end of the M1 motorway. It comprises two concentric geodesic spheres on slender stanchions. Keywords: architecture, culture, capital city, metropolis, monument, artistic, modern art
PMR-D6121 England, West Sussex, Shoreham: Lancing College Chapel was completed in 1875 in neo-Gothic style on the orders of the Revd. Nathaniel Woodard, founder of the college. Architects were R.Herbert Carpenter and William Slater. View of the nave, looking east. Keywords: architecture, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, flying buttresses
PMR-D6120 England, West Sussex, Shoreham: Lancing College Chapel was completed in 1875 in neo-Gothic style on the orders of the Revd. Nathaniel Woodard, founder of the college. Architects were R.Herbert Carpenter and William Slater. Keywords: architecture, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, flying buttresses
PMR-D6119 England, West Sussex, Shoreham: Lancing College Chapel was completed in 1875 in neo-Gothic style on the orders of the Revd. Nathaniel Woodard, founder of the college. Architects were R.Herbert Carpenter and William Slater. Keywords: architecture, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, flying buttresses
PMR-D6118 England, West Sussex, Shoreham: Lancing College Chapel was completed in 1875 in neo-Gothic style on the orders of the Revd. Nathaniel Woodard, founder of the college. Architects were R.Herbert Carpenter and William Slater. Keywords: architecture, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, flying buttresses
PMR-D4869 People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Province, Turpan: Gaochang ruined city (Uighur name: Qocho), an oasis city on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, dating back to 1st century BC, destroyed and abandoned in 14th century AD. Part of the city wall, with modern buttresses. Keywords: Middle Kingdom, Han, Asian, Silk Road, archeology, ancient, historical, antiquity, culture, heritage, architecture, adobe, erosion, weathered
PMR-D2836 Greece, Island of Rhodes: typical street in the old town, with regular buttress-arches. Tables of a taverna on the left. Keywords: Mediterranean, island, holiday resort, picturesque, historic, mediaeval, architecture, Byzantine, Rhodos, Rodos, UNESCO, Knights of St. John, Crusaders, Knights Hospitaller
PMR-D0771 Cyprus (North), Kantara: buttress of mediaeval Kantara Crusader Castle. Keywords: Mediterranean, Byzantine, island, holiday resort, Aphrodite's birthplace, picturesque, historic, landscape, fortress defance, ruin
PMR343-06 Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: facade of the Gothic south transept of the cathedral, with a forest of flying buttresses. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, culture, historic, mediaeval, medieval, heritage, imposing, Köln
PMR316-09 Poland, Cracow: River Vistula seen from the walls of the Wawel Fortress with the Kosciuszko Mound in the distamce. Keywords: picturesque, buttress, fortifications , defence
PMR254-09 France, Alsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg: Gothic windows and flying buttresses on the south side of the cathedral, built between 1176 and 1439 in Romanesque-Gothic styles from local sandstone. At 142 metres, it was the highest building in the world until 1874. Keywords: architecture, metropolis, culture, historic, national heritage, mediaeval, medieval, masterpiece, stone carving, tracery, symmetry
PMR-D3253 Czech Republic, Cheb: the Black Tower, rising above the walls of the castle which dates back to Emperor Frederick 1 Barbarossa in 1179. Built of Black Basalt, the tower was fortified, with very thick walls and an entrance at first-floor level. Keywords: historic, architecture, heritage, picturesque, mediaeval, colourful, Eger, fortifications, buttresses
PMR-D3252 Czech Republic, Cheb: walls of the castle which dates back to Emperor Frederick 1 Barbarossa in 1179. Keywords: historic, architecture, heritage, picturesque, mediaeval, colourful, Eger, fortifications, buttresses
PMR-D3251 Czech Republic, Cheb: walls of the castle which dates back to Emperor Frederick 1 Barbarossa in 1179, from the adjoining park. Keywords: historic, architecture, heritage, picturesque, mediaeval, colourful, Eger, fortifications, buttresses
PMR-D3249 Czech Republic, Cheb: walls of the castle which dates back to Emperor Frederick 1 Barbarossa in 1179. Keywords: historic, architecture, heritage, picturesque, mediaeval, colourful, Eger, fortifications, buttresses
PMR112-09 Italy, Ravenna: Church of San Vitale with its flying buttresses, consecrated in 548 AD, containing the famous mosaics Keywords: architecture, historic, heritage, antiquity, mediaeval, picturesque, Byzantine
PMR-D1955 England, Staffordshire, Biddulph Grange (National Trust), with a remarkable garden created by the owner, James Bateman, in the 19th century. Here, the Dahlia Walk, protected by a buttressed yew hedge. Keywords: architecture, conservation, preservation, estate, ancestral home, park, landscape garden, historic, culture, picturesque, heritage, manor house
PMR513-10 Italy, Lombardy, Milan: details of the stone carving on the roof of the cathedral, showing ornamentation on a flying buttress. Keywords: architecture, sculptures, metropolis, Christian, culture, historic, national heritage
PMR503-01 Cyprus (North), Gazimagusa/Famagusta: the former Gothic cathedral of St. Nicholas, completed between 1298 and 1326, is probably the best preserved Lusignan monument, although it lost its twin towers during the Ottoman bombardment. Later a minaret was added and it became the Lala Mustafa Pasa Camii (Mosque). Here: the east end apse with its buttresses, showing some fine carving. Keywords: Gazimagusa, church-mosque, architecture
PMR500-07 Cyprus (North), Lefkosa/ North Nicosia: Sultan Mahmut Library, seen through a flying buttress of the Ayía Sofía. Keywords: Lefkosa, street scene, Gothic architecture
PMR527-01 Iraq, Ctesiphon: the ruins of this city, 30 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, date back to the 2nd century BC, but include this enormous vaulted roof, or "evan", 37 metres high and 25.5 metres wide, built without scaffolding in the third century AD. It is the largest vault known to antiquity. View from the side, showing the leaning facade, saved by a buttress. The subsidence is due to the high water table in this area. Keywords: architecture, Mesopotamia, historic, archeological, archeology, Muslim, Islam, natural heritage
PMR541-1 Kutná Hora prospered in the 14th and 15th centuries due to its silver mines and the authorisation to mint silver coin. Here: view of the facade of St. Barbara's Church, founded in 1388, and financed by the mining community, showing the unusual flying buttresses. Keywords: historic town, religious buildings, architecture, heritage, picturesque town
PMR639-09 Macedonia, Skopje: devastated by earthquake on 26th July 1963, the capital city has been largely rebuilt, and the new Orthodox Cathedral of St. Clement of Ohrid with its square, buttressed belltower, consecrated in 1990, is designed to withstand such tremors, although the central dome has a surface area of 650 square metres and supports a 5-ton chandelier. Keywords: Orthodox church, modern architecture, Christian

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