A Glimpse of Heaven : Catholic Churches of England and Wales Paperback / softback
by Christoper Martin
Paperback / softback
Description
The architecture and decoration of Catholic churches and their importance as part of our heritage has gone largely undiscovered and unappreciated.
This book is a celebration of 100 Catholic churches in England and Wales, with lively and informative text and stunning photography specially commissioned for the book.
Each chapter is devoted to a milestone in the history of the Catholic Church since the Reformation, with a brief introduction followed by a description of each church complementing Alex Ramsay's photographs.
The churches vary enormously in scale, date and location.
The small, 14th-century chapel at Rotherwas near Hereford survived centuries of official persecution and more informal terror from local anti-Catholics.
The 19th-century Church of St Everilda in Yorkshire was built after Catholic Emancipation, but though off the beaten track it still hid its interior magnificence behind non-committal, blank walls.
The Gothic churches of architect Joseph Hansom strike wonder into the hearts of their visitors: at Manchester's Holy Name he contrived a space of breath-taking vastness - architecture designed to shock and awe.
Early 20th-century church architects adopted a lighter - and in some cases extraordinary - approach that gave Rochdale a church with a Byzantine dome and a wall of sumptuous mosaics.
All these are important, architecturally, decoratively, historically and socially, and each has an additional powerful and poignant dimension because of their remarkable stories.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 252 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Historic England
- Publication Date:01/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781905624621
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 252 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Historic England
- Publication Date:01/10/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781905624621
