Discovering English Churches: A Beginner's Guide to the Story of the Parish Church from Before the Conquest to the Gothic RevivalAn interestingly written, handsome and well-produced illustrated book of religious, social and architectural history. |
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A. F. KERSTING Abbey aisles altar arcade architect architecture Baptist St beam became Black Death building built buttresses carved Cathedral chancel chancel arch Chapel Christian Church of St classical clerestory clergy columns Early English EDWIN SMITH England font fourteenth century glass Gothic style Hereford and Worcester Inigo Jones John the Baptist Mary and St Mary the Virgin masonry master mason monasteries mouldings NATIONAL MONUMENTS RECORD nave Norman octagonal painted panels parish church Paul St Perpendicular Perpendicular period Peter and St PICTURE LIBRARY piers pointed arch porch priest pulpit religious ribs Roman Romanesque rood screen roof Saints St Saxon shafts sometimes spire St Andrew St St James St John St Lawrence St Margaret St Margaret Lothbury St Mary St St Mary's St Paul St St Peter St Swithin stone thegn thirteenth century tower tracery usually vault village Virgin St Mary wall wooden