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 ...

Few architectural styles are more visually striking than Gothic cathedrals. Due to their elaborate design and extraordinary construction, they aren’t exactly commonplace, but across Europe there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

Some 1,000 years ago, in 1050, a priest of the Chapel Royal called Leofric was installed as the first Bishop of Exeter. Little is securely known about his background beyond the fact that he was ...

Last Tuesday, the commission of heritage experts approved the proposal to rearrange items within the cathedral to better accommodate tourists, meaning that the majority of the confessionals would be ...