king's college chapel choir Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/kings-college-chapel-choir Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:25:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 King’s College Chapel CHAPEL CAMBRIDGE, UK http://toursmaps.com/kings-college-chapel-chapel-cambridge-uk.html http://toursmaps.com/kings-college-chapel-chapel-cambridge-uk.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:28:16 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221122 REGINALD ELY King’s College, which is part of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1441 by Henry VI, and the jewel at its heart is the college chapel, one of the most striking late-Gothic buildings in Europe. The building is an excellent example of a kind of Gothic architecture unique to Britain, known as the Perpendicular style, which was developed by masons working at the royal court in London during the 14th century and spread rapidly across the country. Perpendicular Gothic buildings, as the name suggests, focus on vertical elements-slender columns, tall pinnacles and buttresses, windows with tall, thin

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