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Parish Church Treasures - The Nation's Greatest Art Collection (Hardcover)
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Parish Church Treasures - The Nation's Greatest Art Collection (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 610
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Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise
European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only
for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and
interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with
the functional, the curious and the naive, from prehistory to the
present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its
contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal
displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings
they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from
thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its
people and their changing religious observance. John Goodall's
weekly series in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in
or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or
historical importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of
parish churches and the insights that they and their contents offer
into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures
incorporates and significantly expands this material to tell afresh
the remarkable history of the parish church. It celebrates the
special character of churches as places to visit whilst providing
an authoritative and up-to-date history at a time when the use and
upkeep of these buildings and the care of their contents is highly
contentious.
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