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Country Churches Simon Jenkins

Country Churches By Simon Jenkins

Country Churches by Simon Jenkins


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Summary

Aims to celebrate England's most glorious churches, from Norman masterpieces and Medieval treasures to Baroque splendour and Victorian high gothic. The author presents the finest churches of various periods, unearthing mosaics, stained glass, grand marbles and carvings of green men, dogs, rabbits and birds, revealing a collection of national art.

Country Churches Summary

Country Churches by Simon Jenkins

This is a celebration of England's most glorious churches, from Norman masterpieces and Medieval treasures to Baroque splendour and Victorian high gothic. Simon Jenkins has travelled England from Cornwall to Cumbria to select its finest churches of all periods and styles, unearthing rich mosaics, precious stained glass, grand marbles and humble carvings of green men, dogs, rabbits and birds. In doing so he reveals not only an unparalleled collection of national art and architecture, but the history and spirit of a people.

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

About Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins (born 1943) is chairman of the National Trust and one of Britain's most prominent journalists. He is the author of many books on history, politics and architecture, including England's Thousand Best Churches, from which this book is taken. He was knighted in 2004.

Additional information

CIN0141190884G
9780141190884
0141190884
Country Churches by Simon Jenkins
Used - Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20090402
128
N/A
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