On April 4, 1942, the diarist Henry “Chips” Channon and a few of his friends paid a visit to Wells Cathedral—one of England’s early Gothic treasures—in the southwest county of Somerset.

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...

The history of Britain and the aspirations of her Christian communities can be traced in the glorious excesses of the cathedrals. From Norman grandeur to the modern interpretations found in ...

Gothic architecture ... The Buildings of England. In his 2008 series How to Build a Cathedral, Jon Cannon explores who built these magnificent structures. He surveys the 'sensational' 13th ...

In this illustrated talk Dr Richard Fisher first explains how the nineteen cathedrals of medieval England were administered and funded, including their curious division into two very distinct ...

Construction began on Old St Paul’s Cathedral in London, England, (actually the fourth ... The cathedral in all its Gothic glory that exists today was put up in 1254. (That isn’t to say ...

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich has been awarded a grant of £57,000 from Historic England to support vital ...

As the smallest city in England, Wells exudes a quaint and serene vibe, with cobbled streets, beautiful Georgian and medieval buildings, and a rich cultural heritage. Wells is a historic and ...

Today that would be sacrilege, but a new survey of the walls of medieval churches in England is revealing that many of them are covered in riots of graffiti, scratched into what were once boldly ...

This book was published by Cassell and Co in 1891. The contributor found this in an auction house in Tasmania, and bought it for her sister back in Beverley. How did the book end up in Tasmania?