Author: C. B. Newham
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141995548
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
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.
Country Church Monuments
Author: C. B. Newham
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141995548
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141995548
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
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.
English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages
Author: Nigel Saul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199606137
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199606137
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.
American Country Churches
Author: Jill Caravan
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781561387892
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An illustrated history reflects the structures, people, and movements of religious America with a region-by-region tour of notable country churches that examines basic architecture and the beliefs of the people who attended them.
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781561387892
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An illustrated history reflects the structures, people, and movements of religious America with a region-by-region tour of notable country churches that examines basic architecture and the beliefs of the people who attended them.
Country Churchyards
Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In her 91st year, this book includes 90 of Welty's photos along with a conversation in which she shares her impressions and memories of the 1930s and 1940s when she rambled through Mississippi cemeteries taking pictures.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In her 91st year, this book includes 90 of Welty's photos along with a conversation in which she shares her impressions and memories of the 1930s and 1940s when she rambled through Mississippi cemeteries taking pictures.
Churches and Churchyards of England and Wales
Author: Richard Hayman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784423564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church, beginning by examining why churches are built where they are, and going on to explain how both church buildings and churchyards have changed over time. It also describes their fixtures and furnishings, including fonts, screens, stained glass and monuments, explaining the ritual and symbolic purpose of these features and how their significance has shifted over time. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, this book will provide an indispensable primer for anyone who is curious about the nation's parish churches and wants to explore them further.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784423564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church, beginning by examining why churches are built where they are, and going on to explain how both church buildings and churchyards have changed over time. It also describes their fixtures and furnishings, including fonts, screens, stained glass and monuments, explaining the ritual and symbolic purpose of these features and how their significance has shifted over time. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, this book will provide an indispensable primer for anyone who is curious about the nation's parish churches and wants to explore them further.
Church Monuments in South Wales, C.1200-1547
Author: Rhianydd Biebrach
Publisher: Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
ISBN: 9781783272648
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The first full-scale study of the medieval funerary monuments of South Wales.
Publisher: Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
ISBN: 9781783272648
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The first full-scale study of the medieval funerary monuments of South Wales.
The Church of England Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Pages : 498
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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England and Lambeth magazine
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Pages : 986
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Pages : 986
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The Church-goer. Rural rides; or, Calls at country churches
Author: Joseph Leech
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Pages : 282
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The Church-goer: Rural Rides; Or Calls at Country Churches. To which are Added, Notices of the Reverends Drs. Pusey, Joseph Wolff, Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, and Francis Close, Vicar of Cheltenham. First [- Second]series
Author: Joseph Leech
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Pages : 288
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