IN this handsome volume 1 Mrs. Van Rensselaer has collected and augmented, from the pages of The Century Magazine, a series of articles in which she describes twelve English cathedrals ; those, namely ...

Two women have finished a "nutty" two-year pilgrimage to every cathedral in England, which started and ended in their home ...

ON A rain-drenched summer morning Rochester Cathedral is an ideal place to take shelter, and then enter another world. It is perhaps the finest surviving example of the thrilling Norman architecture ...

FROM CERTAIN spots in the north of England, you can half-close your eyes and imagine yourself in a medieval theocracy, where pilgrimage routes, mighty monasteries and the tombs of saints define the ...

In many parts of England, cathedrals face a financial crisis: they are expensive to maintain, often need renovations and are almost entirely self-funded – which means they are under constant pressure ...

I had a revelation in Wells, where I was speaking at the Festival of Literature—Wells Cathedral must be the finest, most beautiful example of Gothic architecture in England. I spent hours exploring it ...

Last week, Jalopnik’s Michael Ballaban posted about what is easily one of my favorite urban stories of all time, which is that parts of Manhattan are actually built on the wartime ruins of English ...

With Anglican choristers on summer holiday, a Fayetteville ensemble is stepping up to help fill the gap at one of England's grand houses of worship. Members of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir ...

Jay-Z has dropped by an English cathedral to see the inspiration for his latest album – an 800-year-old parchment copy of the Magna Carta. The musician visited Salisbury Cathedral in southwest England ...