Sir John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches

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HarperCollins, 1993 - Architecture - 764 pages
First published in 1958, the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, edited by John Betjeman, won its way into the hearts of all those who love the churches of England and Wales.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BETJEMAN
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Bedfordshire
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Dorset
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Copyright

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15th-century 15th-century glass aisle altar rails apse beautiful bellcote bench-ends box pews brass brick building built carved central tower century chancel arch chapel churchyard clerestory coloured cruciform church Decorated dicular doorway early 16th-century Early English effigy exterior font cover G. E. Street G. F. Bodley gallery Georgian Gilbert Scott Giles Gilbert Scott Gothic Inside interior Jacobean John the Baptist lancets late Mary the Virgin monu monuments nave nave and chancel nave roof Ninian Comper Norman font octagonal painted panels Perpen Perpendicular church Perpendicular tower Peter & St porch pulpit rebuilt reredos restored rood screen Royal Arms Saints 4m/6km Saxon sedilia setting spacious splendid St Andrew St James St John St Mary 4m/6km St Michael St Nicholas St Paul St Peter stained glass stone style tall timber tomb town tracery transept vaulted Victorian village W. D. Caroe wall wall-paintings window woodwork

About the author (1993)

A leading modern champion of the values of an older England, John Betjeman was born in Highgate, London, to a well-off merchant family. The loneliness and suffering of his upbringing, first under nursemaids and then at a series of schools, often surface in his poetry. He went to Magdalene College, Oxford, where he belonged to the same smart social set as Evelyn Waugh. Deliberately free from the difficulties of much modern verse, Betjeman's poetry harks back to a more accessible British tradition that includes Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy. With quiet wit he resisted the debasements of modern mass culture in favor of an older England simpler, more rural, and more religious than the current one. Both W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin especially admired his work, and Auden even edited a selection of it. His harsher critics have found him unintellectual and sentimental. His poetry has achieved a huge circulation in Great Britain, with the Collected Poems (1958) reputedly selling more than 100,000 copies. Considered a national institution, he succeeded Cecil Day Lewis as poet laureate in 1972. Betjeman worked in a variety of media and achieved wide public attention as host for a television series on the history of British architecture, one of his prime interests. He wrote a great deal on architecture, especially for the Architectural Review. Betjeman died in 1984.

Bibliographic information

TitleSir John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches
AuthorJohn Betjeman
EditorJohn Betjeman
Edition5, illustrated, revised
PublisherHarperCollins, 1993
ISBN0002177277, 9780002177276
Length764 pages
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