BBC How to Build a Cathedral

[jamescope]

Just finished the show. Hold my beer, it's time get building.

[GhostOfJulesVerne]

This is great, lots of ideas for the cathedral in the Minecraft city I'm building.

[nameputhpong]

When he said 144 was a holy number, i, as an fps player, got chills.

[curiousworld]

Wells Cathedral is, and always will be, my favorite of all Gothic cathedrals. I don't think we've ever 'topped' Gothic architecture. To me, it's the pinnacle of architectural achievement.

[vaniberi]

Yet another wonderful documentary of the class and kind only BBC can make. Thank you!

[dianeadams]

THESE CATHEDRALS ARE ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL AND TRULY AMAZING PLACES TO WORSHIP GOD AND JESUS CHRIST!!! 💖💖💖💖💖

[Panzerkex]

I can't wait until my cathedral is finished... Only 59 more years!

[Zoiex]

i think that glass and steel post-modern buildings, are unworthy of being called cathedral-like. They are indeed vast, and impressive, but modern skyscrapers are never actually beautiful, and more often than not, are a blight upon the landscape. In comparison to ornate cathedrals, modern skyscrapers are an obscenely sterile, hypodermic syringe of a middle finger upon the human and humane environment.

[alisonemblow]

What a wonderful programme - thank you so much for this introduction to the awe-inspiring story of the building of the English medieval cathedrals.

[Louis.R]

Cough cough... Catholic England, here.
Return, all ye who are lost amongst the ruins, return ye to the grandeur of old; through the master masons' broken arch, the last pilgrims' march, to taste of the body and blood of Christ your Lord and God.

[jjd]

9:00 - I am a Groundworker myself and amazing we still use this very same method. Its how we set our ‘squares’ out. All structural foundations are still built this way

[lanehewitt]

The beauty and majesty of Durham Cathedral challenges my atheism more than any word spoken.

[v.g.r.l.]

Beautiful throughout, this documentary inspires a deep spirituality. The host is a very sensible man. Thanks for his work.

[drtak]

From useless raw stone to this, this is what we call intelligent design.

[Wasssssuppppppp]

No there wasn’t much dust at all. Everything was slow at that time. Cutting stones was a slow process. It took 100’s of years to build these things and were done by Freemasons. 25% of the Freemasons traveled to these projects on a weekly basis on a contract. So they were in very high demand for their craftsmanship. Many stayed on site in the Freemasons lodge. They ate and drank there along with sharing knowledge and ideas.

[swiftcee]

In Christian Europe the spirit of initiation was kept alive throughout the Dark Ages and the medieval period by several initiatory orders of people who the church even today, described as illiterate workmen. Illiterate workmen my backside! they were highly skilled people, these were the craft masons who built the glories of Chartres Cathedral, who built Cologne Cathedral, who built Amien, and who built every major church building in Europe. They had no architects, they worked as teams, now Chartres Cathedral was built in the unbelievable time of 30 years. It was built by five separate craft masonic teams, all working seemingly independent of one another, to it well enough there is no existing overall plan for the place and yet the whole thing comes together as a harmonious whole which baffles description. It enhances the powerful earth energies that are already there, it is acoustically perfect and it is a place of incredible beauty.


Now these crafts mason's were divided into four main groups, they are known today collectively as The Compagnonnage, and they were the Compagnons Passant who built bridges, made road structures and built castles. The Children of Maitre Soubise who mainly worked in the romanesque style with rounded arches, thick walled buildings, that couldn't rise very high because of the structural problems with them. Then there were the Children of Solomon, and this is a very disputed group. It's very difficult to discern whether they actually were part of the Templar order or were they merely affiliated to them or were they employed by them. The Templar certainly gave them their rule. They built in the new style that the Templars had brought back the secret from the holy land, how to build with the pointed arch. They got that from their Sufi brethren in Jerusalem, and the first pointed arches that the Templars commissioned are still there to this day on Temple Mount. They were replicated at Chartres Cathedral in France.

Chartres Cathedral was built and financed at the Knights Templar’s behest. That's how it was erected so quickly, normally it took two or three centuries to finish a cathedral, Chartres was done in 30 years. Over the west front of Chartre, there is one of the earliest pieces of gothic architecture in Europe. It is the over the main door at Chartre, with Jesus sat in glory, surmounted by a mandolra, and there is another significant symbol of his deity which is his halo, and it's a halo with a cross in it that symbolises the deity. But if you look very carefully at the shape of that cross you'll find it's the Gnostic cross, we also have Europe's first known initiate Pythagoras.

[EuphroseneLabon]

Interesting and informative - but SPOILED by way too many intrusive adverts! Shame. (And found same documentary with minimal ads.)

[pointyhairedbush]

I gotta say the music in this documentary is absolutely gut-wrenchingly sad, but soooo beautiful, I’m inspires

[lordkorner]

The pillars of the earth brought me here.

[Reverie]

I already feel like I’m about to be bullshitted. #tartaria