Churches And Churchyards Of England And Wales

The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church, beginning by examining why churches are built where they are, and going on to explain how both church buildings and churchyards have changed over time. It also describes their fixtures and furnishings, including fonts, screens, stained glass and monuments, explaining the ritual and symbolic purpose of these features and how their significance has shifted over time. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, this book will provide an indispensable primer for anyone who is curious about the nation's parish churches and wants to explore them further.

The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church, beginning by examining why churches are built where they are, and going on to explain how both church buildings and churchyards have changed over time. It also describes their fixtures and furnishings, including fonts, screens, stained glass and monuments, explaining the ritual and symbolic purpose of these features and how their significance has shifted over time. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, this book will provide an indispensable primer for anyone who is curious about the nation's parish churches and wants to explore them further.

Marks the centenary of the Church in Wales and critically assesses landmarks in its evolution.

This historical work has been digitally restored using the latest technology, making it available in digital and printed form. The original is painstakingly manually quality-checked, leaving fresh, easy-to-read literature. About this book: Contains over 250 pages and 110 illustrations of abbeys and churches in England and Wales with descriptions and their history. Chapters in this book: St. George's Chapel, Windsor: The English Escurial Deepdale: A Lay Bishop's Church Beverley Minster Hadleigh: A Martyr's Church Cirencester: A Typical Country Town The Chapels In "The Tower": For King and Captive Olney: A Hymn-Writers' Church Scarborough And Filey: Two Yorkshire Health Resorts Great Brington: Graves of the Washingtons and Spencers Abingdon: A Church of Many Aisles Wrexham and Gresford: Two Great Welsh Churches St. Lawrence and Bonchurch; Perivale; Bemerton: Some Tiny Churches Fairford: Some Famous Windows St. Mary's, Oxford, and St. Mary's, Cambridge: Two University Churches Swaffham Prior and the Trimleys: Two Churches in One Churchyard St. Botolph's, Boston: A Beacon in the Fens Ottery St. Mary: A Great Devonshire Church Leeds and Doncaster: Memories of Recent Labour Amesbury: An Ancient Sanctuary St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich: A Famous Civic Church Ashford: The Home of the Smythes Chenies: Graves of the Russells Louth: A Tall Spire in the Plains St. Clement Danes': The Church of the Great Lexicographer Cobham: A Series of Ancient Brasses Selby: A Great Yorkshire Abbey Brixworth and Bradford-on-Avon: A Century After Augustine Wimborne Minster: A Saxon Foundation Halifax and Bradford: Among Spinners and Weavers All Saints', Derby: "The Pride of Derby Town" Berwick-on-Tweed: A Puritans' Church Evesham Abbey: A Destructive Reformation Higham Ferrer: An Archbishop's Thankoffering Cartmel: A Tower Within a Tower Ludlow: "The Noblest Parish Church in England" East Dereham, Berkeley, and Bronllys: Some Campanile Towers Pershore: The Fragment Which Remains Howden: A Story Writ in Stone St. Peter's, Wolverhampton: In the Heart of the Black Country Bishopsbourne: Memories of the "Judicious Hooker" Excerpt from the book: The two side chapels, that of Rokeby on the north, and Holdsworth on the south, almost produce the effect of transepts, though the latter is much the larger. The font is a Norman one, of stone, with fine Perpendicular canopy. Near it is the quaint figure of an old man, which holds the poor-box. It represents "Old Tristram," in his life-time a professional beggar in Halifax. At the west end of the south aisle stands what is to some the most interesting monument in the church. It is in memory of Robert Farrer, a native of Halifax, last Prior of Nostel, subsequently Protestant Bishop of St. David's, and finally burnt for heresy in 1555. This historical work has been digitally restored using the latest technology, making it available in digital and printed form. The original is painstakingly manually quality-checked, leaving fresh, easy-to-read literature in modern fonts whilst keeping the author's intent in place wherever possible. This also enables Kindle versions to use the technology available such as Text-to-Speech, as our books are not simply printed scans.