Winchester Mystery House
This Victorian mansion in San Jose, CA is filled with unexplained oddities.
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Winchester Cathedral - England
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Winchester Cathedral, an example of Norman architecture in England.
A Norman Truss.
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The upper register of the Winchester manuscript shows the heavenly city. The artist of the Mont-St-Michel Cartulary clearly wants us to see the parallel between the heavenly city and the monastery.
They sometimes end with a point apparently growing into the wall, or forming a knot, as at Winchester, and often are supported by angels and other figures. In the later periods the foliage or ornaments resemble those in the capitals.
Winchester and St. Paul's were more than double the ground area of the Abbaye aux Hommes, while the London cathedral and Bury St. Edmund's were each a fourth larger even than the gigantic Cluny itself.
Porticullis: A heavy grating of iron or iron reinforced wooden bars, suspended on chains which were worked by winches; used to cover an entrance to a castle.
A late Gothic chantry chapel at Winchester Cathedral
Sculpture became free standing rather than being incorporated in columns. The new expanse of window space was filled with gloriously rich coloured glass.
disc drive, disk drive, hard drive, Winchester drive - computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it ...
Laying the blocks: Ropes and lifting devices (cranes and winches and derricks) were used to lift the large blocks. Once in place, the rocks were finished (fluted, for example).
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