{"id":449,"date":"2008-05-11T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:24:40","slug":"news-letter-11th-may-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; May 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the meeting on 6<sup>th<\/sup> May by welcoming new members and visitors, confirming the arrangements for the May Social and detailing the walk to Arley on 11<sup>th<\/sup> May before introducing Keith Cattell and his talk <em>On a Wing and a Prayer \u2013 The Cathedral Builders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We started with the first Saxon cathedrals and then moved on to Norman developments and subsequent rebuilding of many Saxon cathedrals.\u00a0 Keith\u2019s illustrations were not limited to British cathedrals and we were able to compare our familiar churches with those in continental Europe.<\/p>\n<p>We learned how these buildings, which were the largest structures in the world until Victoria\u2019s reign, were constructed.\u00a0 Where did the stone come from?\u00a0 What craftsmen were involved?\u00a0 Why did construction only go on for eight months of the year?\u00a0 Which end was completed first?\u00a0 Keith answered all these and many more questions.\u00a0 He took us through the development of vaulted ceilings, the emergence of the Gothic style, the use of flying buttresses and explored the reasons for some of the collapses and near-disasters.\u00a0 The sheer audacity of the domes at Florence and St Paul\u2019s left us full of admiration for their respective architects and then, all too soon, Keith was winding up his fascinating presentation with a look at the two twentieth century cathedrals in Liverpool and at Gaudi\u2019s unfinished masterpiece in Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the meeting on 6th May by welcoming new members and visitors, confirming the arrangements for the May Social and detailing the walk to Arley on 11th May before introducing Keith Cattell and his talk On a Wing and a Prayer \u2013 The Cathedral Builders. We started with the first Saxon cathedrals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}