The presenter compares the religious architecture of the 12th-century Canterbury Cathedral with the 13th-century York Minster and their contrasting views of man's relationship with God.
The presenter looks at changes in church art from the crude 14th-century gargoyles of St. Andrew's church in Heckington, Lincolnshire to the more sophisticated 15th-century stained-glass art of St. Mary's in Fairford, Gloucestershire.
