When the work of a stonemason goes unnoticed, it’s a noteworthy accomplishment. Such is the paradoxical calling of stonemasonry, a fading craft that was not only essential in the rise of global ...

More than 60 animals, including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, guinea pigs, and a tortoise, were brought to the service attended ...

The outside of Salisbury Cathedral can now be seen without scaffolding for the first time in 38 years. A survey in 1986 revealed the medieval building, which had its first stone laid in 1220, was in ...

One of those precious places is Salisbury. And here Lane Fox suggests the government and the Church of England need a “Samson” figure “to challenge the philistines”, amid concerns Salisbury Cathedral ...

Salisbury Cathedral in the west of England is a magnificent Gothic landmark that, with a spire rising over 400 feet, stands proud as a vestige of the early Gothic era. At that time, in a local ...

LONDON-- British police have arrested a man suspected of trying to steal a Magna Carta from its display case at Salisbury Cathedral. Wiltshire Police said Friday that cathedral alarms sounded Thursday ...

A rare 13th-century Bible will return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written, thanks to the help of The Independent. In an early Christmas present, our ...

The two men accused by the UK of attempting to assassinate a Russian double-agent with nerve poison have defended themselves, claiming they were only at the site of the killing because they wanted to ...