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Showing posts with label Gothic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gothic. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2026

King's College


If you don't know a lot about the Gothic and neo-Gothic architectural details (and I really don't) this college which dominates the center of Cambridge looks very similar to Magdalen College in Oxford, which was founded around the same time.

That's the famous chapel on the right.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

La Maison du Roi


In Dutch, this building is called the Broodhuis, or Bread House, referring to the first building on the site in the 12th century. The French name King's House seems more appropriate to the extremely Gothic ruffles and flourishes of this 1873 renovation.

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