Dr. William Whyte, tutorial fellow in History at St John's College, Oxford, discusses the history of Keble College: now an Oxford landmark, but a dramatic experiment in architecture when it was built.
Brilliant and a gothic revival style carried forward into the Hudson Highlands by Downing, Vaux, Withers, and Upjohn: the Pointed Style advocated by Ruskin found a home over here in New York state and city, e.g., Jefferson Market (now a Library) in Greenwich Village (my neighbourhood now) was a direct symptom of what Butterfield did here in Keble. An excellent talk by Whyte.
The Chapel is marvelous. Very inspiring. Too bad Henry VIII was such a violently selfish tyrant. It's time that the Anglican Church to go back and also turn the cathedrals back over to those whose ancestors built them and to those who monasteries and churches and abbeys and shrines were demolished in greed. Walsingham was one of the most renown pilgrimage sites in Europe at its time. It is still a holy place.
