For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass and relics, France’s Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic ...

The cathedral's 150-plus windows are strong stuff: Capturing nearly 27,000 square feet of sky, they throw rainbow images into the nave's silent, many-arched darkness.

Chartres en Lumieres, a nighttime sound-and-light show (running April through September), helps re-create how the cathedral's facades might have looked with colorful statuary.

If Notre Dame de Chartres was France’s first cathedral to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979, it is primarily because it is considered the most complete and best-preserved of the ...

The other day several of us were bothered by the fact that the medieval Peterborough Cathedral in England now rents out its nave for social functions, most recently an insurance company dinner. It ...

Universe of Stone A Biography of Chartres Cathedral Philip Ball Harper: 322 pp., $27.95 ...

When I was last in the cathedral of Chartres, I saw a lot of scaffolding — the apse was full of it, and you couldn’t get close — but I did not realize what was going on. I thought they were ...

Amazingly, after Chartres' cathedral burnt to the ground in 1194, it took just 30 years to rebuild – astonishing when you consider it took centuries to build cathedrals such as Paris' Notre-Dame.

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.