Religious Buildings

Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Inspired by the ill...

Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 641. A...

Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compend...

A small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? This companion volume to the au...

Argyll's beautiful, rugged and extensive coastline saw the birth of the nation and gave Christianity the first footing in Scotland. The Church then...

The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE, therefore came to represent for many a symb...

Through the centuries, the Scottish Borders have been witness to some of the most dramatic and violent events in UK history with monarchs often tus...

Buffeted by Baltic winds and the steely waves of the North Sea, the North-East of Scotland is a surprisingly rich and diverse region with fertile s...

Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but also acoustically and architecturally. Global P...

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...