The Churches Of London

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782395040
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Church written by Roger Scruton and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.

Author : T. G. Bonney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592181957
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Enlarged Illustrated Special Edition written by T. G. Bonney and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Millar
Publisher : Metro Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781902910413
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's City Churches written by Stephen Millar and published by Metro Pub Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the city's church heritage with a guide to its structures, providing a description, history, date of construction, location, and operating hours for each building.

Author : George Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The churches of London, by G. Godwin assisted by J. Britton written by George Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Churches of London written by George Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 : 9781846146640
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Thousand Best Churches written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Denis Evinson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850758198
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Churches of London written by Denis Evinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive survey of London's Catholic churches, Dr Evinson's inventory lists all 140 churches in the cities of London, Westminster and the inner surrounding boroughs. In each case the entries include the foundation of the mission, the building history of the church, the role of the clergy and lay patrons, an architectural description and an account of the church's permanent furnishings. A substantial introduction treats the subject in chronological terms, embracing the period of Catholic emancipation followed by the Gothic, Classical, Byzantine and Romanesque revivals. Post-1945 developments in structure and planning are also explored, followed by a survey of furnishings and artists. This book should appeal to Catholic Londoners and parish priests, as well as art historians and tourists.

Author : Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226173030
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawksmoor's London Churches written by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole—a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity."

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Pitkin Unichrome, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780853725657
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of London Churches written by John Betjeman and published by Pitkin Unichrome, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Fire of London in 1666 there were 97 parish churches in the City of London. 51 were rebuilt by Christoper Wren and new ones were built in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Emma Rose Barber
Publisher : Emons Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783740809010
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss written by Emma Rose Barber and published by Emons Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The ultimate insider's guide to London* Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides* Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide * Appeals to both the local market (nearly 9 million people call London home) and the tourist market (more than 30 million people visit London every year!)* Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss takes you through the doors of 111 rarely visited churches, but which, with the help of this informative guide are now on the map! With their spires, towers, columns and capitals, vaults and arches, carvings and paintings, London churches tell us a lot about its architecture and its history. And with their beautifully carved fonts, pulpits, carvings, mosaics and decorative objects, they show you centuries of skill and labor that went into making these buildings for which the main objective were majesty, endurance and posterity. Following the little black crosses on her mini A to Z, Londoner Emma Rose Barber takes you to a ultra-modern church made in the Brutalist style, to a church once so dark, and now so light, a bombed church, now hollowed out, containing the most romantic garden in London, to churches where you can sip coffee in the aisles and nave...