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John Francis Bentley (30 January 1839 – 2 March 1902) was an English ecclesiastical architect whose most famous work is the Westminster Cathedral in London, England, built in a style heavily influenced by Byzantine architecture. Bentley was born in Doncaster, and died in Clapham. Other examples of his work include the convent of the Sacred Heart at Hammersmith, St John's Beaumont, Corpus Christi Church, Brixton, the Church of the Holy Rood at Watford, St Mary's, Cadogan Street, Chelsea (1879), St Gabriel's, Warwick Square, and St Luke's Church, Chiddingstone Causeway (1897). He was a master of the neo-Gothic and Byzantine Revival styles. The great opportunity of Bentley's career came in 1894, when he was commissioned to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminster, London. After deciding on a Byzantine Revival design, Bentley travelled to Italy to study some of the great early Byzantine-influenced cathedrals, such as St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Because of illness and an outbreak of cholera in Istanbul, he was unable to complete his tour with a study of the Hagia Sofia. Bentley ended his tour in Venice and returned to London to begin work on Westminster Cathedral.〔Paul Waterhouse, ''Bentley, John Francis (1839–1902)'', rev. Peter Howell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 31 Jan 2011 )〕 ==Gallery of architectural work== File:Westminster.cathedral.interior.london.arp.jpg|Westminster Cathedral, interior looking east File:Westminster Cathedral 4227r.jpg|Westminster Cathedral, Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament File:Westminster Cathedral IMG 4616.JPG|Westminster Cathedral, The Baptistry File:Westminster Cathedral interior.jpg|Westminster Cathedral, The Lady Chapel File:Westminster Cathedral IMG 4502-Westminster Cathedral IMG 4505.jpg|Westminster Cathedral, The Sanctuary File:Westminster Cathedral IMG 4607.JPG|Westminster Cathedral, The Shrine of the Sacred Heart and St Michael File:Westminster Cathedral interior4.jpg|Westminster Cathedral, The Holy Souls Chapel File:Westminster Cathedral IMG 4619.JPG|Westminster Cathedral, The Chapel of St Gregory and St Augustine File:St Mary's Cadogan Street 02.JPG|St Mary's, Cadogan Street File:Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Brixton Hill - geograph.org.uk - 472908.jpg|Corpus Christi Church, Brixton 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Francis Bentley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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