It has been eight centuries, to the year, since Pope Honorius III issued an edict to raise money for a new cathedral in the city of Metz. And while it would be years before the first stone was laid, ...

Cathedrals are not only some of the most striking architectural wonders of religious history, but history on a global scale. Architecture of these religious structures influenced the growth of iconic ...

The inspiring and daunting austerity of the new Cathedral permeates every aspect of its architecture. Going against tradition and placing the main entrance to the extreme left of the facade, the ...

The first and most comprehensive architectural history of Worcester Cathedral - the lengthy and painstaking research work of a German academic - has been published. Author Dr Ute Engel gratefully ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

Imagine a woven wooden basket that's 120 feet high, broad at the base and curving gently inward as it rises. Now imagine that basket wrapped in opaque glass. In daylight the glass is a veil, shrouding ...

DAVID LEVIN: You're listening to a NOVA podcast. I'm David Levin. Gothic cathedrals are some of the crowning achievements of Western architecture. They're more like giant sculptures than just ...

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. Having spent ...

Attendance at cathedral services is up 14% in a decade. But which are the country’s best? England’s cathedrals are booming, even as parish churches are in decline. Attendance at Church of England ...