Sentence examples for a great church from inspiring English sources

The Italians, however, were not unaware of what, by French standards, a great church ought to look like.

"If they had pulled down a great church, people would have seen and asked questions," the artist complained, "but nobody asked about these trees".

The conception that the content of a great church should be dominated by large areas of glazing set in the upper parts was influential in the 13th century.

But sailors from Bari got there first and brought St Nicholas's relics to their home port, where a great church was created for their adopted saint.

William Golding wrote a great book about the lives of Neanderthals ("The Inheritors"), and an even finer book, set in the fourteenth century, about the building of a great church spire, not unlike Salisbury Cathedral's ("The Spire").

The argument is not only about architecture, but also about religion, and it goes back to Josep María Bocabella, the devout and eccentric bookseller who first conceived the idea of building a great church.

In their exquisitely proportioned, lofty interiors he tried to achieve a balance between the longitudinal and central schemes, a problem all great church architects had been faced with since Michelangelo's projects for St. Peter's in Rome.

And just like any great church, they get 'em young.

"While it's true some recent religious architecture hasn't been very good, there's no reason in the world why a modern architect can't do a really great church".

"At first," she said, "they think it's because I haven't found one, and they'll say, 'Oh I know a few great churches,' and I don't know a nice way to say I'm not interested," she said.

Little is known of this early printer, whose last name means "sacristan," his title as an official of the Great Church of Haarlem.