The book pays homage to on one of the finest achievements of English architecture -- the great English medieval cathedrals. Because of their chequered history of semi-continuous building and rebuilding, they exhibit a wide variety of architectural styles, evolution and implementation, from early Norman through to Late Gothic – both within one building as well as between them – providing great scope for innovation and excitement in the creation of space and vision.

The architecture of the medieval years covered in this book runs from the Norman Conquest of 1066, and the great rush of major church building that the Normans initiated, through the various stages of gothic renovation, expansion and rebuilding that went on up until the Dissolution of the monasteries and Reformation by Henry VIII in 1539-41.

This volume includes a brief history, Victorian floor-plans, and individual galleries of images from the cathedrals at Bath, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St Albans, Salisbury, Southwell, Wells, Winchester, Worcester, and York -- churches that were founded and built between the Conquest and Dissolution, and either were originally founded as cathedrals or were abbey churches subsequently raised to that status.