Author: Richard K. Morriss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Buildings of Salisbury
Author: Richard K. Morriss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Salisbury in 50 Buildings
Author: Paul Rabbitts
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445699338
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Discover Salisbury’s architectural gems and heritage from across the centuries in this fascinating guide to fifty of its buildings and landmarks.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445699338
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Discover Salisbury’s architectural gems and heritage from across the centuries in this fascinating guide to fifty of its buildings and landmarks.
Salisbury Cathedral
Author: Tim Tatton-Brown
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781857599275
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Salisbury Cathedral, a famously beautiful work of ecclesiastical architecture, was erected within about 40 years in a single style (Early English Gothic), the only substantial additions being the tower and spire, which were completed by about 1330. Tim Tatton-Brown reveals the story of how a great medieval cathedral was built, from the laying of the very first foundations in 1219 to the completion of the great spire, the tallest in Britain at 122 metres high. Drawing on history and geology as well as his expertise in architecture, he shows the wider context of the building, situating its development against the background of English politics of successive ages. He covers with similar authority the relatively few later changes to the structure, right up to the recent installation of a fine new font. His text is accompanied by outstanding new photographs by John Crook, along with drawings, engravings and other illustrations. Contents: Beginnings Preparing for a new cathedral The first phase Bishop Richard's 'New Basilica' The eastern arm, choir and presbytery The completion of the cathedral The chapter house and cloister Building the tower and spire The late Middle Ages, Tudor and early Stuart periods Restoration
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781857599275
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Salisbury Cathedral, a famously beautiful work of ecclesiastical architecture, was erected within about 40 years in a single style (Early English Gothic), the only substantial additions being the tower and spire, which were completed by about 1330. Tim Tatton-Brown reveals the story of how a great medieval cathedral was built, from the laying of the very first foundations in 1219 to the completion of the great spire, the tallest in Britain at 122 metres high. Drawing on history and geology as well as his expertise in architecture, he shows the wider context of the building, situating its development against the background of English politics of successive ages. He covers with similar authority the relatively few later changes to the structure, right up to the recent installation of a fine new font. His text is accompanied by outstanding new photographs by John Crook, along with drawings, engravings and other illustrations. Contents: Beginnings Preparing for a new cathedral The first phase Bishop Richard's 'New Basilica' The eastern arm, choir and presbytery The completion of the cathedral The chapter house and cloister Building the tower and spire The late Middle Ages, Tudor and early Stuart periods Restoration
The Spire
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571312268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Succumb to one churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook). There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in. Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below ... 'Astounding ... So recklessly beautiful, so sad and so strange ... Holds such a place in my soul that it's more or less a sacred text.' Sarah Perry 'A kind of miracle ... Genius.' Guardian ' Quite simply, a marvel.' NYRB ' Superb ... A classic.' Rebecca West 'A master fabulist .. An iconoclast.' John Fowles 'A visionary ... His masterwork [of] faith, folly and desperate desire ... Golding at his best.' Benjamin Myers
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571312268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Succumb to one churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook). There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in. Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below ... 'Astounding ... So recklessly beautiful, so sad and so strange ... Holds such a place in my soul that it's more or less a sacred text.' Sarah Perry 'A kind of miracle ... Genius.' Guardian ' Quite simply, a marvel.' NYRB ' Superb ... A classic.' Rebecca West 'A master fabulist .. An iconoclast.' John Fowles 'A visionary ... His masterwork [of] faith, folly and desperate desire ... Golding at his best.' Benjamin Myers
Salisbury
Author: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An architectural investigation of the buildings in Salisbury Close, which studies the history behind the facade. This is a carefully studied and analyzed inventory, which brings together a range of information from archives and records, illustrating it with drawings and photographs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An architectural investigation of the buildings in Salisbury Close, which studies the history behind the facade. This is a carefully studied and analyzed inventory, which brings together a range of information from archives and records, illustrating it with drawings and photographs.
Early Buildings of Salisbury
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Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Salisbury House
Author: Laura Sadowsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986087707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Carl Weeks once wrote, "Strange how all things come by thought or dream, and whatever a man can think or dream he can also do." In the mid-1920s he and his wife, Edith, did just that and built a 28,000 square foot, English style manor house on a 12-acre patch of virgin forest in Des Moines, Iowa. Equipped with 1920s state-of-the-art modern conveniences behind the façade crafted to look centuries old, their new family home was filled with architectural features salvaged from Tudor period English buildings, antiques, and rare examples of modern and historic art and books. Now operating as an historic house museum under the nonprofit Salisbury House Foundation, the Weekses' house and treasures collected from around the world are available for visitors to enjoy and study year round.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986087707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Carl Weeks once wrote, "Strange how all things come by thought or dream, and whatever a man can think or dream he can also do." In the mid-1920s he and his wife, Edith, did just that and built a 28,000 square foot, English style manor house on a 12-acre patch of virgin forest in Des Moines, Iowa. Equipped with 1920s state-of-the-art modern conveniences behind the façade crafted to look centuries old, their new family home was filled with architectural features salvaged from Tudor period English buildings, antiques, and rare examples of modern and historic art and books. Now operating as an historic house museum under the nonprofit Salisbury House Foundation, the Weekses' house and treasures collected from around the world are available for visitors to enjoy and study year round.
The Building of Salisbury Cathedral
Author: Shirley Elsie Peters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Salisbury Buildings
Author: Gillian Pearson
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Category : Ann Street
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Ann Street
Languages : en
Pages :
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Wiltshire
Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300096590
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
From prehistoric Stonehenge and Avebury to railway age Swindon, the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close, within a planned medieval town, which boasts Georgian delights such as Mompesson House. Towns and villages range from Marlborough with its sweeping High Street to the exceptional Lacock, in the shadow of its abbey's remains, remodelled as an eighteenth-century Gothick fantasy. The great country houses include some of the finest in England: Palladian Wilton, with which Inigo Jones was involved, Stourhead set in its evocative classical landscape, the elegant eithteenth-century Bowood and the mellow Bath stone of Corsham Court.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300096590
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
From prehistoric Stonehenge and Avebury to railway age Swindon, the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close, within a planned medieval town, which boasts Georgian delights such as Mompesson House. Towns and villages range from Marlborough with its sweeping High Street to the exceptional Lacock, in the shadow of its abbey's remains, remodelled as an eighteenth-century Gothick fantasy. The great country houses include some of the finest in England: Palladian Wilton, with which Inigo Jones was involved, Stourhead set in its evocative classical landscape, the elegant eithteenth-century Bowood and the mellow Bath stone of Corsham Court.