Medieval Clock in Wells Cathedral goes electric
Since 1392 a clock has been chiming and turning in Wells Cathedral in the English county of Somerset. But the world’s oldest continually-working…
The English Parish Church through the Centuries
A new digital resource created by the University of York has been released which will provide teaching and learning resources about the history…
The Minster Churches of Beverley, Ripon and Southwell 1066-c.1300
This work is concerned with the comparative study of three minster churches, those of Beverley, Ripon and Southwell, in the period 1066-c.1300.
Solemn World of Lights: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral is located southwest of Paris. The building has four wings pointing directly North, South, East and West. Each wing represents the…
Ethiopian Pilgrimage: The Rock Churches of Lalibela
The Christian monarch had a dream. God spoke to him: Build churches of rock this will be a New Jerusalem.
Building with God: Anglo-Norman Durham, Bury St. Edmunds and Norwich
I shall argue that in the medieval period, the construction of churches and, to a considerable extent, urban planning, were deemed God-centred processes rather than human-centred activities.
The custom of the English Church: parish church maintenance in England before 1300
A division of responsibility for parish church fabric and contents between rector and parishioners first appeared in English ecclesiastical legislation in the early thirteenth century and was to remain in place until the mid-nineteenth century.
Toward a Medieval Architectonics: Reading Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral is the most complete of England’s medieval cathedrals. The articulation of its different parts in time and space forms a kind of complex text that can be read in a variety of ways.
Art and reform in tenth-century Rome – the paintings of S. Maria in Pallara
The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copies of lost nave cycles and a lost donor portrait of their patron, Petrus Medicus.