Europe’s Great Gothic Cathedrals Weren’t Built Just of Concrete The designers and builders of Europe’s great Gothic cathedrals weren’t actually so innovative. Laura Clark.

Visiting Europe's great cathedrals is no doubt a moving experience, regardless of one's religiosity, but the crowds and ...

While the great churches of Continental Europe developed in a succession of styles, England’s for the most part remained Gothic. ‘Interior of Ely Cathedral’ (1797) by J.M.W. Turner.

The photos in “Cathedrals to the Glory of God” were collected on cycling trips in Western Europe, crossing the United States, on Caribbean cruises, and travels near and far.

Building the Great Cathedrals. ... Beauvais and other European cities. Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, some cathedrals now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse.

Walk into St. Joseph Co-Cathedral at 721 Canal Boulevard in Thibodaux, and you might feel as if you’re overseas.

Well, like many modern-day churches, the one you see today replaced a few earlier versions of St. Paul's, destroyed by fires in 962, 1087 and the Great Fire of 1666.

When Europe’s great cathedrals were built over a thousand years ago, they, too, were at the forefront of science. Their size, their height and their sheer complexity were the very embodiment of ...