“It’s the first west front (main entrance ... High Gothic Saint-Denis, as well as other Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and Senlis Cathedral, spurred the spread of the architectural ...

Catholic liberal arts colleges have turned toward traditional architecture when expanding to accommodate the numbers. Here ...

St. Thomas is a Gothic church built in the 1930s that needed work ... Now, it has a carved wooden screen, called a reredos, in front of the window. The altar railing, a modern style that didn ...

The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with glorious stained-glass windows. The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with colorful light shining through ...

The use of stained-glass windows transformed ordinary light into something divine, and Gothic architecture developed partly out of a desire to build churches with larger windows so that God’s ...

“The orientation of Gothic churches in particular are very proscribed — the front door always faces west, for example.” Grinnell said his favorite is the window behind the church’s choir loft.

Authors Phil Eschbach and Jonathan Rich will discuss Florida’s Carpenter Gothic churches in a lecture Thursday at Florida Southern College. Rich and Eschbach are the authors of “Spires in the ...