Download or read book Country Church Monuments written by C. B. Newham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Church Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Church Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monuments to Faith written by Basil Rotoff and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainians first came to Canada a century ago, seeking a new life on the western prairies. They brought with them an ancient and rich cultural tradition, deeply rooted in Christianity. The most visible symbol of this tradition is the Ukrainian church with its distinctive cupolas. As soon as the settlers were established in the new land, they began to reshape their environment by building churches in the styles they remembered from their homeland. In this richly illustrated volume, the authors trace the continuity of tradition in achitecture, art, and community life from Ukraine to the parishes of the Manitoba prairie. In a detailed examination of the exteriors and interiors of forty-nine churches, the book establishes a typology of Ukrainian church designs. Biographies of the architects, master builders, and artists are included, along with a guide to the art and architecture of a Ukrainian church.

Download or read book English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages written by Nigel Saul and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive survey of English church monuments from the pre-Conquest period to the early sixteenth century. Ground-breaking in its treatment of the subject in an historical context, it explores medieval monuments both in terms of their social meaning and the role that they played in the religious strategies of the commemorated. Attention is given to the production of monuments, the pattern of their geographical distribution, the evolution of monument types, and the role of design in communicating the monument's message. A major theme is the self-representation of the commemorated as reflected in the main classes of effigy-those of the clergy, the knights and esquires, and the lesser landowner or burgess class, while the effigial monuments of women are examined from the perspective of the construction of gender. While seeking to use monuments as windows onto the experiences and lives of the commemorated, it also exploits documentary sources to show what they can tell us about the influences that helped shape the monuments. An innovative chapter looks at the construction of identity in inscriptions, showing how the liturgical role of the monument limited the opportunities for expressions of self. Nigel Saul seeks to place monuments at the very centre of medieval studies, highlighting their importance not only for the history of sculpture and design, but also for social and religious history more generally.

Download or read book The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter at Leeds written by Margaret Pullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parish Church has not only played a significant part in the life of Leeds, it captures within it the history of the great events and people who together have shaped that city through the centuries. Hundreds of monuments and memorials dating from the Middle Ages to the present day encrust its walls and floors, telling as they do, the part Leeds people have played in that story. Here we see memorials to members of the Leeds Volunteers, formed to offset Napoleon's threatened invasion, and to the men from the city who fought in the Crimea, in South Africa and in two World Wars. Here also we find tributes to hundreds of local men, women and children who lived out their lives in the town; some now forgotten, others nationally famous, like Richard Oastler the 'Factory King'. Now for the first time, those memorials have been captured in Margaret Pullan's pioneering publication, the product of years of devoted research. The range of information offered includes records of births, marriages, and deaths, full inscriptions, background histories explaining why the deceased were buried in the Parish Church and the artistic merits of their tombs. Architectural, ecclesiastical and local historians will find this an invaluable contribution in their respective fields of work whilst the general public will find it gives a fascinating view of the people of Leeds who lived through the years as the old town grew into a major city.

Download or read book The Early Church in the Light of the Monuments written by Arthur Stapylton Barnes and published by London, Longmans. This book was released on 1913 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monuments of the Early Church written by Walter Lowrie and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Monuments and Painted Glass of Upwards of One Hundred Churches written by Philip Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notices of Sepulchral Monuments in English Churches written by William Hastings KELKE (Rector of Drayton Reauchamp.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the laying out planting and managing of cemeteries and on the improvement of churchyards written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Wales and published by RCAHMW. This book was released on 1960 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has a leading national role in developing and promoting understanding of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales, as the originator, curator and supplier of authoritative information for individual, corporate and governmental decision makers, researchers, and the general public.

Download or read book Monuments and Antiquities of Croydon Church in the County of Surrey written by John Corbet Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire written by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Care of Church Monuments written by Council for Places of Worship (Church of England). Conservation Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by John Donne and published by Naxos Audiobooks. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are done by 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it.