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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 14577, member: 25&quot;]If you look at the handrail on the entry bridge, which seems to be pretty well at water level if that is a glimpse of the sea behind the bridge, it can give the scale of the building as a lot smaller than Whitby, and there are no accompanying towers by the remaining gable ends, one of which appears to have the remnants of a chimney stack attached (square top), and this is a feature of domestic but not ecclesiastical architecture.</p><p>Another scaling feature is the block size of ragged walls,assuming the artist was reasonably true to what he saw. </p><p>There are also a couple of window slits shown, more consistent with defensible domestic architecture than the large window openings of a church.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly the building appears to be on a rising piece of land behind the bridge, making the total build height less than it appears. No one builds on the level if there is a bit of height handy, because it makes the position both stronger and more imposing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will grant that Whitby has a lot of seagulls, though. So does almost any town with a landfill dump nearby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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