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, ...

The Notre Dame Cathedral will survive a massive fire that threatened the 800-year-old Parisian landmark and, in it, one of the most famed examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Built ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral has been upgraded to a Grade 1 listing (Peter Byrne/PA) A cathedral which is said to have transformed British design has had its listing status upgraded to recognise ...

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 ...

Britain's greatest surviving ancient wooden building, a huge medieval barn dubbed "the Cathedral of Middlesex" by John Betjeman, has been rescued for the nation after years of neglect at the hands of ...