Author: Northamptonshire Family History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Memorial Inscriptions at All Saints Church, Braybrooke
Author: Northamptonshire Family History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Country Church Monuments
Author: C. B. NewhamPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141995548
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.
The Chronicles of the Collegiate Church Or Free Chapel of All Saints, Derby
Author: John Charles CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derby (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Society of Antiquaries of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: The London Burial Grounds
Author: Mrs. Basil HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Author: Margaret AstonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316060470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.