Finding chaplains on-site at a National Trust heritage property is not something visitors usually expect. But at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, in the north of England, it has become a regular ...

We accidentally discovered a 500-year-old church in rural France—and it’s completely abandoned, yet filled with original ...

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really.

Preliminary archaeological work at the Big Desert of Tatev, a medieval Armenian monastery complex, has already yielded ...

The English Heritage site of Leigh Court Barn is less than a 20-minute drive from Worcester. Here’s what you need to know about the barn, including why it is there, how to get to it and the ...

If you plan to make Madrid, Spain, your home base for your upcoming European adventure, there are a few spots you should ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly ... Father Serafeim lights a candle inside an ossuary where the shelves are full of the skulls of the deceased monks ...

The exhibition is staged at The Ragged School in London, and its grounding in the medieval and gothic comes from Gallacher’s interest in deconsecrated monasteries ... touchpoint it is today A first ...

Visit the large medieval Benedictine monastery, and the stunning ruins ... it’s worth stepping inside some of the city’s heritage buildings to take in the beautiful constructions from the ...

with glorious artsy treasures kept safely inside. To a medieval monastery that fed the poor in very generous and very creative ways. And today, houses some curious and creative caryatids ...