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Ships Of Heaven - The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals (Hardcover)
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Ships Of Heaven - The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals (Hardcover)
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_________________ 'Something close to divine inspiration' - The
Times When Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man
('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas
Crane), set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed
ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals -
Britain possesses over one hundred - as great unmoving bastions of
tradition. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he
discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant
upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and
bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable
structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the
peasant labourers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We
learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and
prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew
up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation
and icon-smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the
Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world
wars. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and
archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason
who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives
and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.
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