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Grotesque and Ghastly Gothic or Soaring Spiky Spires?

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Grotesque and Ghastly Gothic or Soaring Spiky Spires?

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This stereo pairs image of a church with lots and lots of spiked abutments and spires on a Y shaped avenue was selected to finish the week. For me its appearance is both unwelcoming and forbidding - having a dark and austere aspect...The location and subject was very quickly identified by sharon.corbet ( /photos/129555378@N07/ ) as Down Cathedral ( Down_Cathedral ) . The cathedral is formally known as the "Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity". As Niall McAuley ( /photos/gnmcauley/ ) explains, and per the Wikipedia article, at least some of the structure dates to the 13th and 14th centuries, with the "gothic revival" flourishes added in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.......Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton..Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence..Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection ( #//catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000034077 ) ..Date: between ca. 1860-1883..NLI Ref: STP_1940 ( vtls000565256 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )

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1870 - 1930
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