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Winchester Cathedral: ceiling vaults
Inside the ongoing preservation of the Vatican
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Learn how pollution from industrialization in Europe damaged the limestone of Cologne Cathedral
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Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
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St. John's College Chapel
Sir George Gilbert Scott
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James Wyatt, c. 1800.
James Wyatt
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