History

Web site for The Cistercians in Yorkshire project

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Whittington, Worcester. History of the church of St Philip and St James, particularly of its complete rebuilding in the Early English style between 1842 and 1844.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. The ruins of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, of which only the church nave survives intact, on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Buckfast Abbey, Devon. The official site includes an illustrated history of the medieval monastery refounded in 1882.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Glastonbury Abbey. Official web-site, stronger on myth and legend than proven historical fact.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. The official site provides a history and virtual tour of this massive Gothic Revival church begun in 1892 and still unfinished.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. Founded by St Patrick in 445 A.

: The Cathedral seeks to maintain an Anglican and Irish ethos and identity in its daily worship, whilst providing a hospitable space for civic, community and inter-church services. A living partnership is maintained with St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral in the city.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Edinburgh Cathedral (Roman Catholic). Originally the Chapel of St Mary, built in 1814 to the designs of James Gillespie Graham, it became a cathedral in 1878.

Coventry Cathedral has been a place of worship for over 900 years. To walk from the ruins of the old Cathedral into the splendour of the new is to walk from Good Friday to Easter, from the ravages of human self-destruction to the glorious hope of resurrection.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Aberdeen, St Andrew's Cathedral. Opened in 1817, the cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church was the first of many buildings in the city designed by Archibald Simpson.

Arts, Architecture, History, Building Types - Westminster Cathedral. The official site of the primary Catholic Cathedral in England and Wales includes a brief history and tour of the Byzantine-style building, designed by Victorian architect John Francis Bentley.