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St Botolph's Church is the widest parish church in England, the tallest to roof, and also one of the largest by floor area. The very largest by floor area is Holy Trinity Church in Hull, now known as Hull Minster. The tower is 266 feet 6 inches (81.23 m) high. [a] The walls of the tower are 40 feet (12.2 m)
Church of Sweden: Largest Cathedral in northern Europe. Height 118,7m, Length 118,95 m. [86] Yeonmudae Catholic Church 3,360 [citation needed] 2008–2009 Korea Army Training Center South Korea: Catholic The largest church in East Asia [citation needed] Grace Cathedral: 3,357 [87] 1910–1964 San Francisco United States
Longest medieval cathedral still intact 167.8? 84: ... Largest choir in Europe ... Cathedral of the Holy Cross: 1875: Boston
The largest church building in Poland and one of the largest in the world. 8: St. Peter's Basilica: 136.6 m (448 ft) [2] 1626: Vatican City Vatican City: Catholic: The largest church building in the world both by area and volume 9: St. Stephen's Cathedral
Boston's coat of arms: Sable, three crowns paly Or [6]. The name Boston is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", [6] "stone" or "tun" (Old English, Old Norse and modern Norwegian for a hamlet or farm; hence the Latin villa Sancti Botulfi "St. Botulf's village"). [7]
Seville Cathedral has more than 500,000 cubic meters of interior space, [56] and Milan Cathedral has 440,000 cubic meters of interior space, making them the largest cathedrals by interior space in Europe. Cologne Cathedral, 144 m (472 ft) long, and 86.25 m (283 ft) high, with 407,000 cubic meters of interior space, ranks as the largest Gothic ...
People's Salvation Cathedral: 44 m (144 ft) [11] Bucharest: Romania: It is the tallest and largest (by volume) Orthodox church building in the world. 8 Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń: 44 m (144 ft) Licheń Stary: Poland: Highest nave in Poland, 77 m wide. The highest point inside the church (dome presbytery) is 85 meters high 11 Cologne Cathedral
Cathedrals are not always large buildings and there are no prerequisites in size, height, or capacity for cathedrals to serve as such beyond those required to be a typical church. A cathedral might be as small as the historic Newport Cathedral, a late medieval parish church declared a cathedral in 1949. That said, size, height, capacity, and ...