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Following on from 100 Buildings 100 Years and 100 Houses 100 Years,
this book illustrates and describes 100 churches and chapels built
in the UK since 1914, charting the development of buildings for
worship. In this period concrete and steel gave a new freedom to
construction, while new ideas about how congregations could
participate in services changed assumptions about traditional
layouts, bringing celebrants and people closer together. The
century saw dynamic churches in dramatic shapes of all sizes thanks
to ambitious engineering, and brilliant colour from new forms of
stained glass, murals and sculpture. Architects whose work is
included here range from Basil Spence and Edward Maufe, designers
of major cathedrals, to the radical Gillespie, Kidd and Coia whose
brutalist seminary lies abandoned near Dumbarton. The book provides
biographies of major designers; articles on glass, fittings, and on
the synagogues, mosques and temples that play an intrinsic and
important part in worship in Britain today. Contributors include
architectural historians Elain Harwood, Alan Powers and Clare
Price. Beautiful photography throughout showcases the very best of
British church design, whether it is the minimal symmetry of a
timber-framed altar, or light streaming in through a multi-coloured
stained glass panel.
From St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to Notre-Dame in Paris, Christian
churches represent some of our most significant architectural
achievements, designed to evoke wonder and awe. Offering
unprecedented access to a collection of revered religious
landmarks, photographer Guillaume de Laubier takes readers on a
stunning architectural tour. Sacred Spaces showcases breathtaking
photographs of extraordinary churches and cathedrals, revealing
original, illuminating views of icons, such as la Sagrada Familia
in Barcelona, while also shedding light on lesser-known sites, such
as Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Whether Catholic, Protestant,
or Orthodox; made of wood, stone, concrete, or glass; Roman,
Gothic, Baroque, or modern, the places of worship featured in this
richly produced volume present an extraordinary overview of our
architectural and cultural history.
The profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk provides not only
examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in
their communities and offers an insight into the history of
medieval England. The third revised and enlarged edition of The
Guide to Norfolk Churches contains an encyclopaedic glossary and a
detailed index, which contrbute to the comprehensive survey
provided by this guide. This indespensible guide to the 'living'
medieval churches of Norfolk helps the visitor to understand both
the general features of churches and the unique aspects of those in
different areas. The guide is generously illustrated with
photographs, line drawings and a detailed map to aid in locating
each church within the county. The expanded reference section is
designed to answer a host of questions which may tease the church
visitor. For example, what symbols are used to represent particular
saints? Why do so many Norfolk churches stand isolated from their
villages? And why does the pagan Green Man find a place in our
Christian churches? This book provides the answers to these and
other questions. Written by enthusiasts for both the churches and
the county in which they stand, the great appeal of this guide is
that, once the code of church architecture has been broken and the
language learned, every church, be it ever so humble, is shown to
be unique, with its own story to offer. This guide provides the
key. "In this, his revised guide to Norfolk churches, Mr Mortlock
has provided us with a fascinating and illuminating description of
each and every one he has visited. Armed with this guide the
visitor cannot fail to enjoy exploring our lovely churches and
having done so, it is my earnest hope that he or she will be
inspired to lend their support to these marvellous symbols of our
heritage." From the Foreword by the Countess of Leicester
When was the Dome of the Rock built and what meanings was the
structure meant to convey to viewers at the time of its
construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians
of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of
the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. This book returns to one
of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions
running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. Detailed
examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content
of these inscriptions provides new evidence concerning: the
chronology of the planning, construction, and decoration of the
building; the iconography of the Dome of the Rock; the evolution of
Arabic epigraphy in the early Islamic period; and the public
expression of religious concepts under the Umayyad caliphs.
This eclectic selection of papers looks at historic and
contemporary issues concerned with the redundancy of churches, and
their subsequent reuse and maintenance. When did it come to be
thought preferable to reuse the buildings rather than demolish
them? What is the role of the Church of England, and how has the
law changed over time? How have ideas evolved about the
acceptability of different uses - by members of other religions,
for commercial purposes, and involving for instance licensed
premises and martial arts? And how are heritage bodies entrusted
with former churches, such as the Society for the Protection of
Ancient Buildings, the Churches Conservation Trust and the Norwich
Historic Churches Trust (NHCT), coping with the challenges of
maintaining and converting the buildings in an age of austerity?
Papers presented at conferences organized by the NHCT and its
Friends in 2014 and 2015 are supplemented by four specially written
contributions on aspects of the NHCT itself: its history, its
guiding principles, the Heavenly Gardens project to enhance
churchyards, and the experiences of a tenant. The NHCT is entrusted
with the care of 18 of Norwich's redundant medieval churches, and
works not only to maintain them but to increase awareness of
architectural, historical and other related aspects of our medieval
ecclesiastical heritage. All profits from the sale of this book go
to support its work.
The haunted history of England's churches and chapels is brought
vividly to life in this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated
modern guide. Here you will encounter the compelling world of the
unseen linked with a thousand years of worship - including the
Tudor phantom of Rycote, the lonely monk of Minsden Chapel and the
black-magic ghosts of Clophill, to name but a few. From the authors
of The Borley Rectory Companion comes this astonishing book, which
covers seventy-five of the most notorious and lesser known of our
haunted ecclesiastical buildings. Combining a wealth of historical
and paranormal information with stunning original and atmospheric
photographs, this volume is perfect for researchers and armchair
ghost hunters alike. Paranormal historian Paul Adams and writer and
photographer Eddie Brazil join Peter Underwood, the UK's most
experienced ghost hunter and respected author of over fifty books
on the supernatural, in another literary partnership that will
chill all but the sturdiest of hearts.
The Dome of the Rock was built in 692 C.E. under the patronage of
the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It enshrines the Sacred
Rock, literally the irregular highest tip of Mount Moriah, one of
the several ridges around which the city of Jerusalem began to
develop as early as five thousand years ago. The structure
commemorates the Prophet Muhammad's (ca. 570-632) celebrated Night
Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and his Ascension through the
heavens to visit God, as told in the Koran and the Traditions. As
such, the mosque has reflected and represented Islam during most of
its history, but it is also associated with sacred events in the
lives of Christ, the Virgin, and Christian saints as well as with a
host of Jewish prophets, traditions, and memories. Today the Dome
of the Rock is used primarily for women's congregational prayer,
private prayer, and religious instruction, and as a place of
pilgrimage for people of all faiths. This volume is the most
detailed and complete visual documentation published to date of
this profound monument. Stunning color photography explores the
exterior and luxurious interior, illuminated by delicate light from
stained glass windows and decorated with veined marble, mosaics,
oriental carpets, and porphyry columns. The introduction, by one of
today's most esteemed Islamic scholars, explores the history, art,
architecture, and cultural and religious significance of the
building. The book also includes transcriptions of the
earliest-known Koranic script, inscribed on the building's
octagonal arcades, historical travelers' accounts of the Dome, maps
and drawings, a bibliography and glossary, and an index.
Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition
that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other
Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its
historical and architectural development with such clarity. The
discovery of this historic core, first visually by
nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by
twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight
of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a
popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two
hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also
keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened
monuments.
The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a
masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and
most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the
story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an
architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her
genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress
to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a
love of the past. The church is Losh's masterpiece, richly
decorated with symbolic carvings there are images of ammonites,
scarabs and poppies, and everywhere there are pinecones, her
signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power
of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth.
The Pinecone is also the story of Sarah's radical family, friends
of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the
life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of
the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young
northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about
the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.
Award-winning Jenny Uglow (author of The Lunar Men, Nature's
Engraver and In These Times) crafts this moving story of a
beautiful and ornate church, a pioneering and imaginative woman,
and the changing life of a small northern village in the face of
the Industrial Revolution.
Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central
role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of
2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential
French monument are once more at the forefront. This
all-too-prescient book, first published in French in 2013, takes a
central place in the conversation. The Gothic cathedral par
excellence, Notre Dame set the architectural bar in the competitive
years of the third quarter of the twelfth century and dazzled the
architects and aesthetes of the Enlightenment with its structural
ingenuity. In the nineteenth century, the cathedral became the
touchstone of a movement to restore medieval patrimony to its
rightful place at the cultural heart of France: it was transformed
into a colossal laboratory in which architects Jean-Baptiste Lassus
and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc anatomized structures,
dismembered them, put them back, or built them anew-all the while
documenting their work with scientific precision. Taking as their
point of departure a three-dimensional laser scan of the cathedral
created in 2010, architectural historians Dany Sandron and the late
Andrew Tallon tell the story of the construction and reconstruction
of Notre Dame in visual terms. With over a billion points of data,
the scan supplies a highly accurate spatial map of the building,
which is anatomized and rebuilt virtually. Fourteen double-page
images represent the cathedral at specific points in time, while
the accompanying text sets out the history of the building,
addressing key topics such as the fundraising campaign, the
construction of the vaults, and the liturgical function of the
choir. Featuring 170 full-color illustrations and elegantly
translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame Cathedral
is an enlightening history of one of the world's most treasured
architectural achievements.
The images in this volume are the result of the photo shoot carried
out in the Sistine Chapel between December 2015 and January 2016.
New technologies have made it possible to achieve spectacular
results, ensuring a more faithful and accurate reproduction of the
Sistine masterpieces. The use of innovative Gigapixel technology
has allowed achievements in life-size reproductions of the frescoes
and an until now unpublished reading of the entire decoration of
the Sistine, restoring its clarity and original colour. Text in
English and Italian.
The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have
never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously
unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English
Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synagogue in
Britain and Ireland from its discreet Georgian- and Regency-era
beginnings to the golden age of the grand "cathedral synagogues" of
the High Victorian period. Sharman Kadish sheds light on obscure
and sometimes underappreciated architects who designed synagogues
for all types of worshipers--from Orthodox and Reform congregations
to Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the 1900s. She examines the
relationship between architectural style and minority identity in
British society and looks at design issues in the contemporary
synagogue. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
A guide to Britain's churches, which talks about the richness and
diversity of over 1500 years of Christian heritage. It also
explains the importance of place in the siting of a church, the
architectural styles, the layout of the interior in relation to
religious practice, the purpose and meaning of stained glass and
wall paintings, and more.
For several years chapels have been at the heart of Black Country
life. A follow-up to "Black Country Chapels", this illustrated book
provides an account not only of the buildings themselves, but also
of the active social life that surrounded them. It is useful to
those born and brought up in the Black Country.
Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the
island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since
it was built it has become an enduring symbol of peace and hope
around the world. The story of who built the chapel and how it came
into existence and survived against all the odds is both
fascinating and inspiring. Author Philip Paris's extensive research
into the creation of the Italian Chapel has uncovered many new
facts, and this comprehensive new book is the definitive account of
the chapel and those who built it. It is a book that has waited to
be written for sixty-five years.
Bar Locks and Early Church Security in the British Isles examines
the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure
or defensible from their earliest times until the later medieval
period. In particular it examines the phenomenon of 'bar locks'
which the author identifies in many different contexts throughout
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Bar locks take various forms
and can be made of different materials, but they all provide a
means of locking a door by placing a bar behind it from the inside
which is then secured onto the door frame or housings on adjacent
walls. The most dramatic examples are provided by thick wooden bars
slotted into recesses incorporated in the adjacent door jambs. The
volume describes and lists all the examples identified by the
author and also publishes his photographs of the evidence for the
first time. The recognition of the role of bar locks in securing
churches led the author to consider further measures which may have
been introduced to enhance church security; these measures could
Have had major implications for structural change and design in the
buildings. These supplementary protective requirements and methods
for achieving them are many and various and are also considered in
the volume.
This latest book by Tarquin Blake documents eighty abandoned Church
of Ireland churches, preserving a record of fragile religious
ruins. Their history, dating back to early Christianity in Ireland,
paints a stark portrait of a Protestant aristocracy and a Catholic
majority. Under the 1801 Act of Union, the Church of Ireland was
united with the Church of England. Following this about GBP1
million (100 million in today's money) was spent building over 700
Protestant churches. The Church of Ireland was the Established
Church and Protestantism the official religion. Most Irish resented
the Church of Ireland, a minority church controlled by Englishmen,
unsympathetic and friends of the landlords. As Protestant
congregations declined in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries an
attempt was made to keep churches open by uniting parishes.
Eventually non-existent congregations forced closure of many
churches. Valuables were removed, churches deconsecrated and
abandoned. Blake's haunting images of crumbling ruins and history
of the churches tell another fascinating story of troubled times.
Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German
and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side
over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of
the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of
belief they offer across time. Inspired by radically modern German
churches of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume offers new insights
into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at
home and abroad. It offers new scholarship on the unknown
phenomenon of mid-century ecclesiastical architecture in
sub-Saharan Africa by Irish designers; a critical appraisal of the
overlooked Frank Lloyd Wright-trained Andrew Devane and an analysis
of accommodating difficult pasts and challenging futures with
contemporary synagogue and mosque architecture in Germany. With a
focus on influence and processes, alongside conservationists and
historians, it features critical insights by the designers of some
of the most celebrated contemporary sacred buildings, including
Niall McLaughlin who writes on his multiple award-winning Bishop
Edward King Chapel and Amandus Sattler, architect of the innovative
Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich.
Every great church makes a statement, and it is seldom simply
theological. An offering of thanks to a beloved minister, a
monument to a powerful ruler, a colonialist vaunt - a church is
never really just a church. Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate,
from the Middle East and across Europe, from Alaska to Argentina,
Asia to Africa, the construction of churches has given the world
some of its most beautiful buildings - its most splendid interiors,
its most atmospheric spaces, an inspiration not just to Christians
but to humankind. Including Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, Coptic,
Lutheran, Baptist, Calvinist, Pentecostal and Mormon places of
worship, Amazing Churches of the World features early basilicas and
magnificent medieval cathedrals, mud-hut churches and soaring 21st
century edifices. In exploring these sacred places, Michael
Kerrigan reveals not just the different approaches to faith across
continents and over centuries, but gives us a glimpse into a wider
history of the world touched by Christianity. Illustrated with more
than 190 photographs, Amazing Churches of the World includes more
than 150 chapels, basilicas and cathedrals dating from the Middle
Ages to the present day.
The ancient Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul with Dyfrig,
Teilo and Euddogwy saw its beginnings in the community that formed
around the seat of its founding bishops in the middle part of the
6th century. Today, Llandaff Cathedral lies peacefully in a steep
hollow, once no doubt sheltered from the view of marauders by land
and sea, close to vital river crossings which made it strategically
secure during the early period of its development as a Christian
community. This guide reveals how successive generations, changes
of fortune, accidents, disasters, human courage and determination
have all made their mark on this fascinating building, from the
12th to the 21st centuries.
Monson's Church Notes, covering 227 parishes, were compiled before
the 19th century spirit of renovation in Lincolnshire. Hence their
value, for much of what he records disappeared during the passion
for renovation.
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