Religious Buildings

For over a millennium, Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (10931133) marking it as an int...

A fully illustrated, comprehensive record of Londons medieval Charterhouse, from its foundation in the 14th century to the present day, presented...

The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th- and 19th-century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19t...

Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since it was built it has...

In the early 1250s Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his youngerbrothers Qubilai and Hulegu ...

At the Venice Biennale, NVA art agency along with great minds from many different disciplines gathered together to discuss the fate of Scotland's i...

'London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn summed up the destruction wrought by the Great Fire that swept through the City of ...

Torre Abbey is an archaeological site of national importance. Founded in 1196, it became the wealthiest English monastery of the order of Premonstr...

The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, completed in 2008, examines the meaning of a cathedral at the dawn of the third millenniu...

Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the great Mosque of Madinah containing the tomb of the Prophet himself, is one of the two holiest sites in the Islamic world. ...

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance. ...

Glasgow has long been an important settlement on the River Clyde but it grew rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become one of th...

An authoritative survey situating some of the Western worlds most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outsta...

Major interdisciplinary study of medieval church porches, bringing out their importance and significance. The church porches of medieval England a...

Notre-Dame de Paris, for 800 years the heart and soul of the City of Lights, was ravaged by fire in April 2019. Since then, people from all over th...

Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and...

Britain is well-known for its churches and cathedrals; buildings of great architecture and religious grandeur that form many of our recognisable sk...

Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world's towns and cities.Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterb...

Essays exploring the influence of the sacred buildings of Jerusalem on architecture worldwide. Jerusalem - earthly and heavenly, past, present and...

The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical c...

First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main church of t...