This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but ...

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 ...

In 1204, King John lost his patrimonial lands to the French King Philip Augustus. The severance of England from Normandy, which until that point had been ruled by the ‘Norman’ King of England, ...

Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2012 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. This stone church at 127 Kent Street in Greenpoint is not as modern as it may appear at first ...

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture. New ...