On a wide promontory above the River Wear, which cuts through this bustling university town, a vast cathedral, ringed by medieval battlements, rises into the cloudy sky. When the cathedral was founded ...

Durham is a gorgeous city nestled in the North East of England, just south of Newcastle. The city itself is beautiful, but ...

A cathedral's light and sound show is a key way of bringing in money to help cover multimillion-pound maintenance costs, chiefs say. The Storytellers, a Luxmuralis installation at Durham Cathedral, is ...

The service will celebrate the railways and the north-east of England A cathedral service will be held to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). Durham ...

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DURHAM, ENGLAND—Excavation of the Great Kitchen at Durham Cathedral has uncovered “a vast amount of food waste,” according to Norman Emery, the cathedral archaeologist. The kitchen was used from the ...

Amost unexpected sound greeted me as I pushed open the heavy oak door of the thousand-year-old cathedral in Durham: laughter. It wasn't coming from a tittering school group, but rather from a cluster ...

Today's Object of the Week is a medieval bronze ring once used to claim legal refuge.