Religious Architecture Gallery

Kings College Chapel AA98_04190

KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, Cambridge, Interior view. The organ is dominant, standing on the screen which divides the chapel and ante-chapel. It was built in 1605, and the case was made by Chapman and Hartop. It has since been enlarged. The rib vaulting of the chapel ceiling is also visible. Photographed by Eric de Mare. Date range: 1945-1980

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The Golden Temple, Amritsar, 1913

In the water of immortality: the heart of the Sikh religion. Eastern and western architecture in the sacred tank of Amritsar: the Golden Temple and the modern clock-tower (erected by the British in the 1860s and 1870s) in the holy city of the Sikhs. Date: 1913

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

1910s, 1913, Amritsar, Architecture, British, Clock, Clocktower, Eastern, Golden, Historical, History, Immortality, India, Indian, Religion, Religious, Sacred, Sikh, Sikhism, Sikhs, Tank, Temple, Tower, Water, Western

Hereford Cathedral AA002157

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, Hereford, Herefordshire. An exterior view looking towards the west front of the Cathedral from King Street. The west front was built by Oldrid Scott. Photographed by Stanley W Rawlings. Date range: 1945 - 1965

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Car, Cathedral, Medieval