Palimpsest

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Palimpsest
You may be looking for the type of universe or the academic journal.

A palimpsest was a type of Cathedral.

Iris Wildthyme described it as "a posh way of saying that it had been built in lots of stages and the people building it had kept changing their minds". (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)