EFFECT OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLES ON OBJECTIVE ACOUSTICAL MEASURES IN PORTUGUESE CATHOLIC CHURCHES

This study reports on acoustical field measurements made in a major survey of 41 Roman Catholic churches in Portugal that were built from the sixth century AD until 1993. The survey involved eight monaural acoustical measures that were taken at multiple source/receiver locations using the impulse response with noise bursts method- Reverberation Time (RT), Early Deca