The Cathedral of Chartres - A Ladder to Heaven
This cathedral was built as more than merely an enclosure for the performance of the liturgy, but with the express aim of fulfilling the essential purpose of the liturgy by restoring the spirit to its original unity with the divine. It does this through the sublime design of the architecture, the inspired art of the sculpture and glass and the profound content of the iconography of subjects depicted. It contains an encyclopaedia of universal Christian wisdom. Chartres Cathedral is one of the world's masterpieces of art as revelation, which can cut through the chattering of the active mind to enable us to see as if for the first time.