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Author: Sir John Betjeman
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 1171
ISBN-13: 0007416881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.
Author: John Betjeman
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Glancey
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best-loved of English poets, John Betjeman (1906-1984) was also a great champion of British heritage and his legacy lives on, not just in his poetry, but in his diaries, broadcasts, and letters. He famously campaigned to save many church buildings, and his work encouraged a greater appreciation of overlooked Victorian churches and architects. Illustrated with black and white photographs and accompanied by Glancey's amusing editorial notes, this is a beautiful book for enthusiasts of Betjeman, and people similarly passionate about conservation and restoration.
Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: Penguin Global
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846146640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimon 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.
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0300256507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they--not merely the clergy--affected how worship was staged. The book provides an accessible account of what happened in the daily and weekly services, and how churches marked the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and summer. It describes how they celebrated the great events of life: birth, coming of age, and marriage, and gave comfort in sickness and death. A final chapter covers the English Reformation in the sixteenth century and shows how, alongside its changes, much that went on in parish churches remained as before.
Author: John Betjeman
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780719522208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: Pitkin Unichrome, Limited
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9780853725657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Fire of London in 1666 there were 97 parish churches in the City of London. 51 were rebuilt by Christoper Wren and new ones were built in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words--the poetry for which he is best known and, even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a phenomenon. From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman's talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the soul of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now, collected in book form for the first time, his broadcasts represent one of the most compelling archives of 20th-century broadcasting.
Author: John Betjeman
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 279
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1784424889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries of accumulated wealth, and is set off by a selection of breathtaking photographs by Matthew Byrne. It covers changing architectural styles across the centuries, and prominent examples of artistic work, including stained glass, rood screens, church monuments and curious carvings. This book is published in association with The National Churches Trust, a national, independent charity dedicated to supporting church buildings across the UK.
