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

An inscribed tablet is set above the East-facing door together with a stone statue of King Arthur within a recessed Gothic ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval ... Each cathedral was a product of innovation, where Eastern-inspired pointed arches joined forces with revolutionary ribbed vaults and gravity-defying ...

Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of the arch. They also provide for more ground area underneath: more worshippers could fit into a church ...