The edifice is mounted by a Gothic spire, of almost 80 metres in height, dating from the 14th century and reconstructed in the 19th century. The pictoral presentation in the Abbey Church of ...

Three experts weigh in on the architectural style that defined Europe for centuries and continues to inspire buildings today ...

The carved shields in the eastern bays of the nave and in the choir aisles are traditionally those of individuals or families who were benefactors to the building of the new Gothic Abbey by Henry III, ...

Construction began on the imposing Gothic abbey of today under the orders of King Henry III in 1245. Britain’s King Charles III supports probe into monarchy’s ties to slavery The central ...

The Nave is at the western end of the Abbey and contains the graves and memorials of many famous people. When Henry III died in 1272 his magnificent new Gothic Abbey was not complete and so it ...

The site – which also comprises the small medieval Church of Saint Margaret, built in Perpendicular Gothic style, and Westminster Abbey, where all the sovereigns since the 11th century have been ...

Others, like Northanger Abbey, were met with more confusion than enthusiasm. As a coming-of-age romance and a romantic satire, a gothic parody and a comedy of manners, Northanger Abbey has ...

While not the first satire of Gothic to be published – The New Monk (1798) and The Heroine (1813) were among a number preceding it – Northanger Abbey is perhaps the most memorable of the genre.