Redesigned from the ground up for BDP Series 8 - welcome to the Medieval Cathedral!

This build started as the Medieval Stonemasons Guild in BDP Series 1, Series 2, and was included the Bricklink MOC Pop-Up Store. Between Series 3-5 I redesigned the build as the Medieval Construction Site and submitted it to BDP 5. In BDP Series 6 and 7 I did a ground up redesign, the project was still called the Medieval Construction Site. For BDP Series 8 I decided to downscale the cathedral a little bit, use the 48 x 48 baseplate, and attempt a (nearly) completed build.

The cathedral now has nearly 4000 parts. It is scaled to the Lion Knights Castle and to the Medieval Town Square and is a fitting centerpiece for many AFOL-built medieval towns. Cathedrals were often the same height as smaller castles at their nave. For example, the Tower of London is 27m, and Burg Eltz is 35m. Chartres Cathedral is 37m at the nave. Cathedral towers are far taller than many castles - the towers at Chartres are 113m and 105m! Strasbourg Cathedral is 142m tall! (I will post comparison renders on Flickr, Eurobricks, and classic-castle forums.)

The style of the cathedral is a mix between English Gothic and French Gothic, with elements or Romanesque and Norman architecture at the lower portions. To fit the whole build within the 4000-part limit I needed to use larger elements wherever I could and save details for key areas - like the new north tower, the increased amount of stained-glass windows and the western facade.

Join our friendly and hardworking stonemasons in this build! I hope this is a delight to Castle fans around the world.