Buttresses Collection

Ashanti domestic architecture, Gold Coast, West Africa
Ashanti (Asante) domestic architecture made of clay, Gold Coast, West Africa, now part of Ghana. Date: 1922

Spain, Galicia, Cambre
Spain, Galicia, La Coruna province, Cambre. Church of Santa Maria. Built in the 12th century in Romanesque style. General view. Date: 2021

Farmhouse, Hartley
This etching shows a nice farmhouse in Hartley, a village in New South Wales, Australia, with side buttresses and an adjoining fence. Date: circa 1922

Cathedral and Garden of the Town Hall - Bourges, France
circa 1910s

These massive buttresses now adjoining a house, were once part of Wix Abbey, Essex, England. Date: founded circa 1125

Selimiye Camii - Nicosia, Cyprus
Selimiye Camii (Saint Sophia Cathedral) - Nicosia, Cyprus - a Roman Catholic Cathedral converted into a Mosque. circa 1930s

St Dunstans-in-the-East
Severely damaged in the Fire of London in 1666, it was patched up between 1668 and 1671. A steeple was added around 1700 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren

Westminster Abbey, Grand Entrance, London
The Grand Entrance (East side / front / transept) of Westminster Abbey, London Date: 1903

Paris, France - Eglise Notre-Dame. Date: circa 1904

Enormous cotton tree, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Cotton tree with enormous buttresses, historic symbol of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1908

Interior of the Guildhall, London
Interior view of the ancient Guildhall in the City of London. Date: 1918

Hennebont Church - black & white view of church with doorway, steeple and pinnacled buttresses Date: circa 1890s

Market Cross - Chichester, Sussex
Chichester Cross is an elaborate Perpendicular market cross in the centre of the market square, built by Edward Story, Bishop of Chichester

The Grand Entrance of Westminster Abbey, London
The Grand Entrance (East side / front / trancept) of Westminster Abbey, London Date: 1903

Wing of the Duomo and Tower of St. Gottardo, Milan, Italy Date: 1927

Kairouan, Tunisia - Zaouia of Sidi Abdelkader
Kairouan (Kirwan or al-Qayrawan), Tunisia - Zaouia of Sidi Abdelkader. Date: circa 1910s

Royal Wedding 1923 - the altar at the Abbey
The scene of the Duke of Yorks wedding to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923; the altar of Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey had not been used as a venue for royal weddings for 650 years

Old Bakewell Bridge
The charming old packhorse bridge at Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. It has five Gothic arches and triangular corner stones over the buttresses. Date: built circa 1300

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France Date: 1861

Ghent, Belgium - Chateau des Comtes de Flandre (Castle of the Counts of Flanders). Date: circa 1919

13th Centuary Monastery
Watercolour study of the buildings of a 13th century Monastery by Raymond Sheppard

Interior of New Church
The interior of the church of St. John of Jerusalem at South Hackney, consecrated in July 1848

Demolition / Paris
Demolition work prior to the building of the Rue des Ecoles with half demolished tenements propped up with wooden buttresses. Residents continue to dry their washing

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