The palette

Deepslate tiles with a few cobbled deepslate and dark oak blocks for the near-black shingles, spruce stairs for the eave boards; stripped spruce logs standing upright for the walls, dark oak logs for the staves and corner posts; spruce stairs for the arches of the gallery; cobblestone, stone, andesite and mossy cobblestone for the footing; dark oak planks and stairs for the dragon heads, dark oak fences for the crosses, gold blocks for finials and eyes; glass panes for the round windows.

Techniques

• Tiers of lean-to roofs
• An open arcaded gallery
• Black roofs, warm walls
• Small gables with dragons
• Turret and slender spire

The steps

1. Stone footing
2. Floors of the church and its gallery
3. Corner staves and the masts of the nave
4. Arches between the masts
5. Aisle walls of upright boards
6. West portal, carved
7. Chancel and apse walls
8. Gallery: low wall and the arcade
9. Gallery roof
10. West porch and its arch
11. Aisle roof
12. Three small gables
13. Chancel roof and the apse's half cone
14. Raised nave: round windows
15. Upper roof
16. Ridge turret and its louvers
17. Turret skirt roof
18. Spire and its gold finial
19. Dragon heads and crosses
20. Lanterns in the arches

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