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 ...

an internationally regarded scholar of medieval architecture. “Parisian limestone is very porous. It’s full of cavities that had collected 850 years of dirt, which was finally removed. The cathedral ...

Criterion (i): Amiens Cathedral, mainly built between 1220 to 1288, is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture for the beauty of its interior elevation, its prodigious sculpted decoration and its stained ...

Explore the origins of Gothic architecture and its influence on pop culture, from churches to horror novels and movies.

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a brutal clash between a lion and a gladiator in one of England’s most iconic ...

They display a wide array of architectural styles from Early English Gothic, to the majesty of the Renaissance at St Paul's and the sixties modernism of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Cathedral.

Apart from the beauty of its architecture, it bears witness to the power of Christianity in medieval France. The plan of the cathedral is simple and harmonious. It is a basilica with five naves and ...

an iconic style of medieval architecture. Pugin, who famously worked on iconic English buildings such as London’s “Big Ben” and the Houses of Parliament, considered St. Barnabas Cathedral in ...

Towering over Lafayette Square in the Historic District, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist's Gothic towers should lure in any architecture buff. The original cathedral was established ...