Stained Glass Attitudes

Spalding, Lincolnshire.

At the beginning of this year I completed another comparison of 3D models of medieval cathedrals … in Space!

Just to pop on the ol’ website that I have here, that I put together this in the 3D animation program Blender recently: a rendered recreation of the great church of Glastonbury Abbey, England’s wealthiest monastery (by gross income at least by 1535) and o…

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So here is the ultimate outcome of the Spacefleet Ecclesiastica project as begun just over two years ago in September 2020: a map of every cathedral in the medieval Latin Church.

The final instalment of all of the medieval Latin cathedrals has to conclude with the bishoprics that were established in the Crusader States that existed from 1098-1291.

This has been a long time in development, but finally, despite ending up with a nearly unmanageable project file (1.3 gigabytes, excluding textures!)

So here I hurdle towards completing the second (and I’m pinning it to the wall as FINAL) global pandemic project of finding every medieval cathedral in the Latin Church.

If France’s total number of medieval cathedrals at nearly 130 is a surprise, medieval Italy’s is even more so: just ten short of three hundred, for a landmass less than half the size.

This has taken like three months of on-and-off work (mostly off, tbh) of cleaning up the models, animating them and researching their captions, and then like ten-plus days of machine time to render, not counting the bits I had to re-render because there w…