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Author : Matthew Byrne
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784424900
Author : Matthew Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781784424893
Publishing in association with The National Churches Trust, this book offers a luxurious guide to the amazing architecture, art and furniture found in Churches across England.
Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012361528
The author concentrates on the furnishing and works of art to be found in English parish churches from Saxon times to the 20th century. The book consists of a fairly short narrative text and a useful gazetteer complimented by detailed photographs.
Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1856190870
The author concentrates on the furnishing and works of art to be found in the churches - from Saxon times to the present - and sets them in the context of adapting religious requirements and changing aesthetic tastes, blending social history and art history.
Author : Matthew Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784424879
This celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries of accumulated wealth, and is set off by a selection of breathtaking photographs by Matthew Byrne. It covers changing architectural styles across the centuries, and prominent examples of artistic work, including stained glass, rood screens, church monuments and curious carvings. This book is published in association with The National Churches Trust, a national, independent charity dedicated to supporting church buildings across the UK.
Author : John Goodall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472917652
An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'. Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naïve, from prehistory to the present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its people and their changing religious observance. John Goodall's weekly series in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of parish churches and the insights that they and their contents offer into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures incorporates and significantly expands this material to tell afresh the remarkable history of the parish church. It celebrates the special character of churches as places to visit whilst providing an authoritative and up-to-date history at a time when the use and upkeep of these buildings and the care of their contents is highly contentious.
Author : Timothy Schroder
Publisher : Goldsmith's Hall, London
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015079223858
This catalogue comprises 250 gold and silver objects and sets of objects spanning the history of the Church from the earliest possible times to the present day. 12 essays illustrate aspects of evolving liturgy and Church history, such as the medieval Mass, Church patronage in the Middle Ages, and the English Reformation.
Author : Tim Tatton-Brown,John Crook
Publisher : New Holland Publishers Uk Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 1843309653
The English Church is a celebration of 100 of the finest churches England has to offer. From the tiny vernacular church to former cathedrals and abbeys that now operate as parish churches, this is a diverse and fascinating collection of ecclesiastic architectural treasures. More than 300 specially commissioned, full-color photographs capture the fine details and grandeur of churches, from Truro in Cornwall to Carlisle near the Scottish border.
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin Global
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 184614664X
Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavishly illustrated with colour photos from the Country Life archive. Jenkins contends that these churches house a gallery of vernacular art without equal in the world. Here, he brings that museum to public attention.
Author : Philippe Cordez
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912554615
This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder.00Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively.00Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and museum practices.0Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris.
Author : Shirley Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0907814018
Author : C. B. Newham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780141995540
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.
Author : Geoffrey R. Sharpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857731142
The ancient churches and cathedrals of England's towns and countryside are among the glories of our national heritage, the church spire one of the quintessential features of the landscape. Yet how were our ancestors able to construct these often substantial edifices without the benefit of modern techniques? How did medieval masons plan, design and oversee their construction? What methods of construction were used to achieve the magnificent church spires and ceilings that we marvel at today? Geoffrey R. Sharpe brings more that forty years of experience of managing and caring for historic buildings to provide a unique guide to the design and construction of our historic churches and cathedrals. Building a cathedral could require a workforce of 300 to 400 men, the quarrying of 80,000 tons of stone and involve the felling of 1500 trees. How all this was organized, managed and realized is explained in this compelling volume. The author deals with all aspects - from original planning and preparation, to the final construction and decoration. The layout and choice of materials, the construction of the foundations, walls and ceilings, the work of the highly skilled medieval masons, blacksmiths and carpenters are all described and explained. Individual aspects of church architecture such as corbels, tracery and windows, as well as important features of church interiors such as galleries, burial vaults and screens are included. And in a final chapter the author shows the reader how to assess the history and development of a church from the constructional and architectural clues contained within its features. The result is a work that will add a whole new dimension to understanding English church building and architecture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015000537426
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015065137633
