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Dear All

I am sure some of you are familiar with the recent work of Kate Giles, Anthony Masinton and Geoff Arnott (University of York).  They have reconstructed the Guild Chapel wall painting scheme at Stratford on Avon:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue32/1/GuildChapelInterface3.html

Ellie

Dr Ellie Pridgeon, BA, MA, PhD, Arch Dip
Tutor in Art History & Architecture
BA and Certificate Courses
University of Leicester
 
Archivist, Church Monuments Society
Medieval Wall Paintings Web-Blog:
http://medievalwallpaintings.wordpress.com/
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I've done some digging on this myself in the course of researching for an OUDCE online course I'm writing on English cathedrals.
 
There is an absolute goldmine of single point-of-view (but one can look in any direction from the fixed point, and select various points within each building) virtual views at http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ha/. Many great buildings throughout Europe (and possibly beyond, but I didn't explore in depth) can be found here.
 
Chartres, likewise, at  http://faculty.vassar.edu/antallon/chartres/vr/pano/Pano_Flash_029.swf
 
In general I recall stumbling on more detail of this kind for the great French gothic cathedrals than other European medieval buildings.
 
Virtual tours of English cathedrals include Canterbury:
http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/visit/tour/
 
Exeter:
http://www.peterstephens.co.uk/virtual_tours/exeter-cathedral/2012/virtualtour.html
 
Bath:
http://www.bathabbey.org/Diptychimages/Web%20Page%20-%20Mini%20Tour/20100622BAP24%20Choir.html
 
... and Bristol:
http://bristol-cathedral.co.uk/the-cathedral/virtual-tour/
 
The Wells website says it has one, but the weblink appears to be broken. But Wells is also on the Columbia website, above.
 
However my favourite is the Google Street View content provided by Lincoln cathedral. If one starts outside the west front, one can walk inside the cathedral and move around the entire N side of the church, including popping down to the chapter house and back. That's the only English cathedral where one can come close to virtually moving round the church.
 
All these suffer from major issues with perspectival distortion, but are nevertheless brilliant teaching aids.
 
 
 
 
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