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Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony
The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007
Day 6 - Meissen Dom Exterior, including tower and roof-space (click here for interior)
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 South flank of nave and west towers |
 Lean-to sheds between nave buttresses |
 Lean-to sheds between nave buttresses |
 Blind tracery and interlocking gables on buttress |
 Tell-tale spots where lifting-iron holes have been filled |
 Richly crocketted pinacle |
 Roof struts over the nave |
 Roof struts over the nave |
 Roof struts over the nave |
 Domed surface over the nave vaults |
 Roof struts over the nave |
 Doorway from roof-space to crossing tower |
 Butting of roof-struts |
 Roof structure over one of the transepts |
 View from external catwalks |
 An elevated open-air lecture hall... |
 Following the catwalk through the buttresses |
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 Interlacing window tracery |
 Recently re-leaded windows |
 Recently re-leaded windows - detail |
 A rare up-close encounter with the clerestory windows |
 Tim sandwiched by Prof.s Hamburger and Crossley |
 Our irrepressibly cheerful driver, Chris |
 View down to the Albrechtsburg |
 View down to the Albrechtsburg |
 View of the Elbe |
 View from the crossing tower |
 View from the crossing tower |
 The old town and the Frauenkirche |
 View from the crossing tower |
 Looking up inside the perforated crossing tower |
 Looking up inside the perforated crossing tower |
 The western towers |
 The western towers |
 The western towers |
 Professor Crossley and Dombaumeister, Herr Donath |
 Herr Donath explaining the stages of construction |