Cathedral Builders

1163A.D.
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Cathedral Builders

A Gothic cathedral rising over one hundred and eighty years

Watch masons, carters and treadwheel cranes raise a great church from foundation trench to spire. Scrub the centuries, click the stones, and test what the flying buttresses really do.

Dressing stone…

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