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 ...

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 ...

Larry Mantle discusses the design of the new downtown L.A. Cathedral, how to create sacred space, and looks at the structural challenges involved in building a church designated to last for hundreds ...

Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the most important examples of Gothic architecture, being built at the very end of the Early Gothic period, before a transition into High Gothic architecture. The ...

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 ...

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral stands out not only for its history, but also its architecture. It is rather unique among Roman-Catholic churches because of its Greek style, from the single octagonal ...

It was late on a Tuesday afternoon in 1989 when Chuck Toeniskoetter swung open the doors of Saint Joseph’s church in downtown San Jose to show his family what he’d been working on. Alongside his wife ...

The Norwich Cathedral in Norfolk, England found an intriguing way to celebrate its medieval-era architecture—a 55-foot tall indoor slide, allowing visitors to get a close look at the decorations on ...

A powerful laser scanner has been used by experts at The University of Nottingham to capture a detailed, virtual record of the interior of Lincoln Cathedral and reveal clues to its architectural past.

A cathedral which is said to have transformed British design has had its listing status upgraded to recognise the building’s “architectural brilliance”. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King ...