The rebuilt Brentwood Cathedral in Essex was inspired by the designs of ... the cathedral for generations to come.” An earlier Gothic church, built on the site in Brentwood in 1861, had been ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements—ambitious monuments where master architects, carpenters, stonemasons, and glassworkers pushed engineering to its limits.

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

I had a revelation in Wells, where I was speaking at the Festival of Literature—Wells Cathedral must be the finest, most beautiful example of Gothic architecture in England. I spent hours ...

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?

It preached this Man who dominated the individual. Terre des hommes (1938) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The construction of medieval Gothic cathedrals represents an exceptional architectural and human ...