Compare and Contrast Cathedrals

For the most part these old cathedrals had a lot of similarities. The cathedrals were St. Stephan's Dom in Vienna, St. Vitus and St. George in Prague, St. Wulfrum's in Grantham and Trinity Cathedral in Stratford upon Avon.  The main one is that they were all gothic in nature. The architecture of all of these were exteremely gothic with the pointy arches and just the worn down look of them all. Also all of these cathedrals had grave sites inside of the cathedral often in the floors or in the crypt of important members of the church or of the city itself. The Trinity cathedral included Shakespeare's and his family's graves. Many of the statues inside the cathedrals were also very gothic. The mysterious looks on the faces and the curvy shape of these statues is something else that many of these cathedrals had in common. Perhaps the most obvious similarity between them all is the height of the ceiling although the actual height of them did vary. All of these cathedrals were towering and forced you to look basically straight up towards heaven. This was designed this way to remind you of the power of god and to keep you humble. That's another reason why the designs on the celings were so intricate so that you had another reason to look up towards the sky. Another similarity that was shared between all but one of the cathedrals was the stain glass windows all over the walls. The only one that didn't have an abundant amount was St. George's in Prague. I'm not sure why this was the case but the rest of the cathedrals were covered in these beautifully designed stained glass windows that gave the church a very elegant and religious look to it.