In about 2005 a Chinese delegation came to Bristol and used it as an architectural buffet for "Thames Town" on the outskirts of Shanghai. Here's their interpretation of the C17th Llandoger Trow 5790 miles from the original 😒
They went to Bath too and why, oh, why was the only thing that inspired them the Podium Centre??
The heart of Thames Town is this marriage chapel that's a dodgy knock-off of Christ Church Clifton
They seem to have admired Gloucester too
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