Just how did Gothic architects support heavy stone ceilings and create the effect of heaven on earth?
Gothic England
While this map may look like a true physical route, its maker traces a spiritual journey that mirrors a monk's route in their abbey
Matthew Paris’s itinerary maps from London to ...
Famous for its fan vaults and the Perpendicular style, Gloucester Cathedral is a feast for the eyes.
Gloucester Cathedral
An Anglo-Saxon princess founded a nunnery in the eel-filled marshy waters of East Anglia; see how it developed during the Middle Ages.
Four styles of English medieval architecture at ...
Art Historian Paul Binski recovers the Lady Chapel's former opulence in his imagination, and ours.
Ely Cathedral’s Lady Chapel
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Henry VII Chapel
The enormous west front of Lincoln Cathedral stacks Gothic lancets over rounded Romanesque arches. Inside, “crazy vaults” render space illegible.
Lincoln Cathedral
Hidden behind a brightly painted, screen-like façade, the medieval musicians of Wells Cathedral played for crowds assembled outside.
Wells Cathedral
Hinged together, these two panels stage Richard II’s audience with the Virgin and Christ Child. Count the angels!
The Wilton Diptych
A superlative example of Early English Gothic, Salisbury grew taller and pointier in the 14th century. Today its spire tilts 27 inches southeast.
Salisbury Cathedral
This medieval British church is oriented east to west. Points on a compass also mark different styles: the east end is Gothic; the west, Norman.
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