At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...
Cathedrals were elaborate and brightly coloured ... Conqueror seized control of England and Wales. It is built in the Early English Gothic style and has a simple layout in the shape of a cross.
COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to ...
Gothic architecture developed along with cities – it was there that a vast majority of new buildings were erected. The Dominicans and Franciscans who settled in the Polish lands built their ...
In his 2008 series How to Build a Cathedral, Jon Cannon explores who built these magnificent ... and dramatic – cathedrals were the wonders of the medieval world, were showpieces of Christian ...
The dome of the Cathedral of Santa ... arches of the traditional Gothic style then favored by rival northern cities like Milan, Florence’s archenemy. Yet these were the only architectural ...
But the medieval windows were removed in time ... by 1948. St Mel’s cathedral in Ireland was built in the 19th century. However, as the result of an accidental fire, it burned on Christmas ...
One of them, Westminster Cathedral (1895–1903), was a major statement, deliberately built in a red-brick, quasi-Byzantine style to distinguish it from the nearby Gothic exemplar Westminster Abbey.
The largest Gothic cathedral in the world ... world to admire its impressive architecture. Built over the duration of the 15th century, the cathedral has a multitude of chapels and sits on ...
Notre Dame to the National Cathedral Stone by stone uncover the ... buttresses to the intricacies of their stained glass the Gothic cathedrals stand as complex richly designed celebration for ...
Built in the Brabantine Gothic style, this cathedral is so named ... The general view was that the archaeological remains beneath the cathedral were only worth paying to access for those that ...