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 ...

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 ...

Light was important to medieval theologians, as it symbolised God's first creation. The use of stained-glass windows transformed ordinary light into something divine, and Gothic architecture developed ...

Carlisle Cathedral's great stained glass window behind the high altar is now in the running to be named England's favourite.

Carlisle Cathedral's great stained glass window behind the high altar is now in the running to be named England's favourite.