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About This Site

Maps, Place Lists, Links - Use the Tabs above

Future

I hope to make it easy to submit better location information. Many of the locations are very approximate now.

Revisons

 

 

How To Use This Site

Download the Google Earth files & explore in Google Earth

OR

The detail tables provide lists of gothic structures catalogued by Dr. James. For each there are links to multiple sources for written descriptions maps and images.

Item Description
Town + Map The link will open a Google Search for information about that town.
Words

Each button will search a different source for information about the gothic place

GoogleScholar Google Scholar searching for related information
Wikipedia Wikipedia searched from Google
Google Google general search
Clusty Clusty - Searches multiple engines and "clusters" the results
Maps

Brings up Maps of the location

Google Map

Google Map - Will display on this site with several major cathedrals to give reference.

When Google provides more than satellite imagery for France that will appear.

Mapquest Opens a Mapquest map in a new window.

Note that the latitude and longitude information are NOT exact. If you'll Email me better information I'll update it.

Images

Brings up Images of the location

Google Map

Searches Google Images.

Mapquest Searches Flickr .

Readers are urged to add to the wealth on Flickr by uploading your own pictures using at least the following "tags":

  • Town Name
  • Building Type - Cathedral OR Church OR anything else
  • Saint - The saint the structure is associated with (no article)
  • "Gothic"
  • "France"
Department The department in France in which the site is located. The link shows WikiPedia information about that department.
Affiliation Where supplied it typically indicates either a the monastic order or other information. The link shows WikiPedia information about that affiliation.
Building Type Most are churches, with some cathedrals, and other types.
Rating

The place lists are created from three "ratings" that show in the Google Earth links.

  • a = Most interesting to general public
  • b = Somewhat interesting to general public
  • x = Specialist interest only
  • r = Ruin (combined with "x" in the displays)
Latitude & Longitude These values generally locate only the center of the town. Readers are invited to send me more accurate values - I'll update the database using those.
James ID This ID is a unique key that Dr. James uses to identify each structure. It will probably be of interest only to specialists.

 

James E. Mitchell 3/19/06