Author: James Bentham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the Conventual & Cathedral Church of Ely
Author: James Bentham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Interpreting Ely Cathedral
Author: Lynne Broughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873027110
Category : Gothic architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873027110
Category : Gothic architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A History of Ely Cathedral
Author: Peter Meadows
Publisher: Ecclesiastical History/Religio
ISBN: 9780851159454
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The tiny community founded in the fens by St Etheldreda in 672 and refounded as an abbey in 970 became one of the greatest monasteries in England: a community which owned much of Cambridgeshire and East Anglia as well as of the Isle of Ely itself, and which lived and worshipped in a set of buildings of which many are still standing. 'There is not perhaps, any one Fabrick in this Kingdom that exhibits a larger, more elegant, or a more magnificent display of what is called Gothic Architecture, than the Cathedral of Ely': so wrote James Bentham in his History and Antiquities of Ely in 1771. The present book is the first substantial history of the cathedral to be written since then, and covers the Church of Ely through each of its transformations - as early Saxon monastic settlement, as abbey, as cathedral priory (1109), and finally, after the Reformation, as cathedral governed by dean and chapter (1541). A final chapter looks at the present-day life of the cathedral and the changes and challenges produced by the new statutes of 2000. Contents cover: Ely Abbey 672-1109; Ely 1109-1539, with Benedictine observance, Norman architecture and sculpture, the gothic cathedral, monastic buildings, library and archives; Dean and Chapter 1541-1836, with archives, fabric, music and liturgy; Ely Cathedral 1836-1980, with fabric, music, archives; Ely Cathedral 1980-2000. Contributors: IAN ATHERTON, THOMAS COCKE, PHILIP DIXON, ERIC FERNIE, JOAN GREATREX, MICHAEL HIGGINS, SIMON KEYNES, FRANCES KNIGHT, JOHN MADDISON, PETER MEADOWS, DOROTHY OWEN, IAN PAYNE, NIGEL RAMSAY, NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE.
Publisher: Ecclesiastical History/Religio
ISBN: 9780851159454
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The tiny community founded in the fens by St Etheldreda in 672 and refounded as an abbey in 970 became one of the greatest monasteries in England: a community which owned much of Cambridgeshire and East Anglia as well as of the Isle of Ely itself, and which lived and worshipped in a set of buildings of which many are still standing. 'There is not perhaps, any one Fabrick in this Kingdom that exhibits a larger, more elegant, or a more magnificent display of what is called Gothic Architecture, than the Cathedral of Ely': so wrote James Bentham in his History and Antiquities of Ely in 1771. The present book is the first substantial history of the cathedral to be written since then, and covers the Church of Ely through each of its transformations - as early Saxon monastic settlement, as abbey, as cathedral priory (1109), and finally, after the Reformation, as cathedral governed by dean and chapter (1541). A final chapter looks at the present-day life of the cathedral and the changes and challenges produced by the new statutes of 2000. Contents cover: Ely Abbey 672-1109; Ely 1109-1539, with Benedictine observance, Norman architecture and sculpture, the gothic cathedral, monastic buildings, library and archives; Dean and Chapter 1541-1836, with archives, fabric, music and liturgy; Ely Cathedral 1836-1980, with fabric, music, archives; Ely Cathedral 1980-2000. Contributors: IAN ATHERTON, THOMAS COCKE, PHILIP DIXON, ERIC FERNIE, JOAN GREATREX, MICHAEL HIGGINS, SIMON KEYNES, FRANCES KNIGHT, JOHN MADDISON, PETER MEADOWS, DOROTHY OWEN, IAN PAYNE, NIGEL RAMSAY, NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE.
Liber Eliensis
Author: Janet Fairweather
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
"The translation does full justice to the compiler's wide range of source material; it gives priority to the readings of the oldest manuscript of the Liber Eliensis, but covers everything included in the later but fuller recension of the Latin text presented in E.O. Blake's 1962 edition. There are notes on the text and sources, an introductory essay, appendices and indices."--Jacket.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
"The translation does full justice to the compiler's wide range of source material; it gives priority to the readings of the oldest manuscript of the Liber Eliensis, but covers everything included in the later but fuller recension of the Latin text presented in E.O. Blake's 1962 edition. There are notes on the text and sources, an introductory essay, appendices and indices."--Jacket.
Ships Of Heaven
Author: Christopher Somerville
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473527147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’ The Spectator Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven. ‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’ Church Times
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473527147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’ The Spectator Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven. ‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’ Church Times
The Cathedral Church of Lincoln
Author: Albert Frank Kendrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A History of the Church Through Its Buildings
Author: Allan Doig
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199575363
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Allan Doig explores the Christian Church through the lens of twelve particular churches, looking at their history, archaeology, and how the buildings changed over time in response to developing usage and beliefs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199575363
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Allan Doig explores the Christian Church through the lens of twelve particular churches, looking at their history, archaeology, and how the buildings changed over time in response to developing usage and beliefs.
The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Author: John Plummer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Through Great Britain and Ireland with Cromwell
Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Contains a biography of Oliver Cromwell.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Contains a biography of Oliver Cromwell.
Holy Ground
Author: Stephen Platten
Publisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1910519758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Cathedrals are one area of the church’s life where increasingly the unchurched and the half-believer encounter God, and where the institutions of our society instinctively engage with the Christian gospel. Holy Ground digs deep into the life of England’s cathedrals, and discusses such diverse topics as finance, growth, heritage, liturgy, development, music and art.
Publisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1910519758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Cathedrals are one area of the church’s life where increasingly the unchurched and the half-believer encounter God, and where the institutions of our society instinctively engage with the Christian gospel. Holy Ground digs deep into the life of England’s cathedrals, and discusses such diverse topics as finance, growth, heritage, liturgy, development, music and art.