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James Alexander Cameron
Personal blog · stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.comhistoryculture
James Alexander Cameron writes Stained Glass Attitudes, a personal blog at stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on stained glass and Gothic cathedral architecture, including small construction quirks and 'easter eggs' in the stonework. One HN commenter links a post about cathedral mistakes, with no comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dr James Alexander Cameron on top of the Wallingford Screen at St Albans Cathedral following the Saints in Colour project, Feb 2023. Photo by Rev'd Jonathan Lloyd Dr James A. Cameron is a freelance art and architectural historian with a specialist background and active interest in architecture and m
Most-linked posts?
- The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-30
What Hacker News says?
I love these mistakes in gothic cathedrals https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/great...
Comment linking /2014/08/10/great-mistakes-in-english-medieval-architecture/
on “Five Architectural Easter Eggs Hiding on Gothic Cathedrals”Submitted The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals as a story · 167 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it as a story · 161 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Biggest Churches in the World: Anglo-Norman Eleventh-Century Cathedrals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it as a story · 1 points
HN discussion