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Greensted Church

St Andrew's Church in Greensted, Essex is the oldest stave church in England. The nave is built of timbers cut in the late 11th century, but there is an earlier structure of some kind in there. St Edmund was brought here on the way to being buried in Bury St Edmund. Source.

St. George's Church, Sydney, Cape Breton

St. George's was completed in 1785, using finished stone taken from Fortress Louisbourg, some of which originated in Caen, Normandy. Source.

Old Holy Trinity Church

Old Holy Trinity Church, Middleton, Nova Scotia. Built in 1791. Source.

San Silvestro

The church of San Sylvestro in Capite in Rome stands on the site of the Roman temple of Sol Invictus, which was dedicated by the emperor Aurelian on December 25th, 274 to commemorate his victory over Palmyra in the East. The church was built on top of it in the 8th century, and refurbished in 1198, 1601 and 1681. This medieval-looking chunk of masonry, photographed by Gertrude Bell in 1910, has a hare and a green man, and looks like it came from the 1198 rebuild. Source.

St. Paul's, Queen Street East

St. Paul's does a good impression of an Italian basilica that was built in phases from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. Source.

Notre-Dame-des-Victoires

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Skelmorlie Aisle Painted Ceiling

The Skelmorlie Aisle is a remnant of the Old Largs Kirk and contains a monument to the landowning Montgomeries of Skelmorlie Castle as well as this ceiling painted by J Stalker in 1638. Source.

St Nicolas Church in Hérémence

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Sant'Adriano al Foro, 1909

The Church of Saint Adriano in the Forum (the building between the pillars) started life as the Curia Julia, the meeting-house of the Roman Senate. Source.

Dunstan Massey

Saints Anselm and Dunstan, by Dunstan Massey, in Westminster Abbey, Mission BC. Source. Everything about Westminster Abbey seems to have sprung out of a Robertson Davies novel. It's a mid-20th-Century modernist Canadian institution with an utterly European cultural project that has enabled a talented, obscure individual to create a huge body of really fantastic religious art. There's a book about it by Daphne Sleigh.