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The church in Stensele built in 1886 is Sweden’s largest wooden church. The church is called the Cathedral of Lapland, and has place for 2000 persons, and that is a lot when thinking that the place where the church is located only had 167 people in year 1900. There are a few different stories about why the church is as big, but most likely it was a mistake. The explanations of the mistake is that the drawing was made in the metric system with measures in centimetre (cm) but the constructions workers didn't knew that and thought the size was measured in inch instead. This mean that everything became 2,54 times larger than it was supposed to be. (link)

I only flag this up because, curiously, the exact same allegation was made about my old school theatre, with the added embellishment that the two architects (who won an award for it) are said to have walked in when it was finished and yelped that it was far bigger than they had intended.

Are there any other buildings said to have been built to entirely the wrong spec due to imperial/metric-related hilarity?