Perpendicular Gothic architecture, a new style for a new age, coincided with the emergence of the English state in the years 1330-1530. Professor Joe Mordaunt Crook, of London University, visits five examples: King's College Chapel, Cambridge; Gloucester Cathedral; the Pilgrims' Inn in Glastonbury; the Divinity School, Oxford University; and Wrexham Parish Church, Wales. He talks to Professor Jacques Heyman, Dr Christopher Wilson, Dr Caroline Barron, Dr John Blair and Professor Rees Davies about these miracles of structural engineering, and the society this style expressed.
Reader: Samuel West.