On Tuesday 13 May at 8.15pm, at Burgess Hill, respected ‘rebel historian’ Geoff Stray will be digging into the mysteries and literal cover-ups surrounding the remarkable centuries-old ...

The new cathedral will include such familiar elements as a bronze crucifix and tapestries depicting Christian saints. It also will allude to mission architecture and to Our Lady of the Angels ...

The Oculus is further distinguished from Chartres by its organization of movement. The main circulatory action in a cathedral is singularly directional: enter at the back of the nave, move toward ...

The 37th-annual pilgrimage from Our Lady in Paris to Our Lady in Chartres has gathered more than 14,000 people of all ages and from many nations, honoring a 1,000-year tradition.

This paper argues that the twelfth-century tympana of Chartres Cathedral were designed to portray a history of "entrance" and its significance, a history also found in liturgical commentaries upon the ...

NPR's Sara Chayes reports on Malcom Miller, an Englishman who has made his life's work to learn, and tell, the history of France's Chartres Cathedral. Since the 1950's, Miller has given tours of ...