Download or read book Guide to Suffolk Churches written by D. P. Mortlock and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in three volumes, 1988, 1990, and 1992.
Download or read book Suffolk Churches and Their Treasures written by Henry Munro Cautley and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guide to Norfolk Churches written by D P Mortlock and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk provides not only examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in their communities and offers an insight into the history of medieval England. The third revised and enlarged edition of The Guide to Norfolk Churches contains an encyclopaedic glossary and a detailed index, which contrbute to the comprehensive survey provided by this guide. This indespensible guide to the 'living' medieval churches of Norfolk helps the visitor to understand both the general features of churches and the unique aspects of those in different areas. The guide is generously illustrated with photographs, line drawings and a detailed map to aid in locating each church within the county. The expanded reference section is designed to answer a host of questions which may tease the church visitor. For example, what symbols are used to represent particular saints? Why do so many Norfolk churches stand isolated from their villages? And why does thepagan Green Man find a place in our Christian churches? This book provides the answers to these and other questions. Written by enthusiasts for both the churches and the county in which they stand, the great appeal of this guide is that, once thecode of church architecture has been broken and the language learned, every church, be it ever so humble, is shown to be unique, with its own story to offer. This guide provides the key. In this, his revised guide to Norfolk churches, Mr Mortlock has provided us with a fascinating and illuminating description of each and every one he has visited. Armed with this guide the visitor cannot fail to enjoy exploring our lovely churches and having done so, it is my earnest hope that he or she willbe inspired to lend their support to these marvellous symbols of our heritage. From the Foreword by the Countess of Leicester
Download or read book The Angel Roofs of East Anglia written by Michael Rimmer and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016! It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate carvings of angels, with a peculiar preponderance in East Anglia, were simply too difficult for Reformation iconoclasts to reach. Angel roof carvings comprise the largest surviving body of major English medieval wood sculpture. Though they areboth masterpieces of sculpture and engineering, angel roofs have been almost completely neglected by academics and art historians, because they are inaccessible, fixed and challenging to photograph. 'The Angel Roofs of East Anglia' is the first detailed historical and photographic study of the region's many medieval angel roofs. It shows the artistry and architecture of these inaccessible and little-studied medieval artworks in more detail and clarity than ever before, and explains how they were made, by whom, and why. Michael Rimmer redresses the scholarly neglect and brings the beauty, craftsmanship and history of these astonishing medieval creations to the reader. The book also offers a fascinating new answer to the question of why angel roofs are so overwhelmingly an East Anglian phenomenon, but relatively rare elsewhere in the country.
Download or read book The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches Central Suffolk written by D. P. Mortlock and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Churches of Suffolk written by Sarah E. Doig and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of Suffolk’s historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.
Download or read book Suffolk Summer written by John Tate Appleby and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little History Of The English Country Church written by Roy Strong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; from the cataclysm of the Reformation, to the gentrified cleric we meet in Jane Austen novels, Roy Strong takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what men and women experienced through the age when they went to church on Sunday. ‘Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church, of its life today, or its history will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative, account’ Country Life
Download or read book Suffolk in the Middle Ages written by Norman Scarfe and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.
Download or read book Norfolk Churches written by David Stanford and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tireless photographer and church-spotter David Stanford, author of "Suffolkhurches" and "Essex Churches", now turns his attention to Norfolk, presentingifty more churches from the county, chosen for their beauty, historical or ancdotal interest, in a series of captivating photographic portraits. The broadelection includes the eccentric confection that is St Michael and All Saints Boton, described by Lutyens as 'very naughty but in the right spirit', St Andre Gunton, designed by Robert Adam, St Helen Ranworth, known as 'the Cathedral o the Broads' and the mysterious Red Mound Chapel at Kings Lynn.;David Stanfords atmospheric photography captures the spirit of these unique buildings as arcitectural heritage, as historic monuments and as places of Christian devotion.
Download or read book The Guide to Norfolk Churches written by D. P. Mortlock and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable and straightforward guide to the living medieval churches of Norfolk helps the church visitor to understand both the universal features of churches and the history of medieval England.
Download or read book Suffolk and Norfolk written by Montague Rhodes James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to many medieval historical places of interest in Norfolk and Suffolk, first published in 1930.
Download or read book There My Friends and Kindred Dwell written by Tim Grass and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title looks at the history of Baptist Chapels in Suffolk and Norfolk.
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.
Download or read book How to Read a Church written by Richard Taylor and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical overview and explanation of different things one would find in a church: architecture, design, artifacts, symbolism. Useful for anyone of any religious background who visits a church or cathedral.
Download or read book The Round Tower Churches of Norfolk written by Lyn Stilgoe and published by Canterbury Press Norwich. This book was released on 2001 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tens of thousands of visitors each year are attracted to Norfolk's wealth of historic round tower churches, which are illustrated in this guide. The detailed drawings are matched by informative descriptions, and OS map references are included.
Download or read book Medieval Wall Paintings in English Welsh Churches written by Roger Rosewell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the images and iconography that made the medieval church a riot of colour, this book brings together many of the best surviving examples of medieval church wall paintings. It uses new technologies to allow us to visualise these works as the artists first intended. Rosewell's text accompanies the images.
