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Symbolically, what is the significance of the architecture of the Salisbury Cathedral?
I'm writing an essay on the religious importance of architecture and am on the Salisbury Cathedral. Aside from the stained glass, what can the monuments and buildings of the cathedral represent? The spire? Thanks.
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- I heard that a lot of those old building were built by the freemasons, this religion goes all the way back to Egyptians who were stone cutters and knew how to fit stone together exactly. They have put some of their symbols throughout the churches. A lot of the freemasons ideas are about the suns rays and how they affect life and death on the earth.
- Salisbury Cathedral is built in the English English style, and is unusually harmonious in its composition (unlike most English cathedrals) because it was completed in a relatively short period of time in the early 13th century. The Early English style made extensive use of pointed arches, which are not only structurally more secure than round arches, but they also serve the purpose of emphasising the vertical axis, and pointing the eye upwards. This was the dominant trend in English Gothic: the architecture tells the viewer to look up, both physically and metaphorically, towards Heaven. The extravagant spire of Salisbury - the tallest of any English cathedral - emphasises this message.
