Steeple chasing : around Britain by church /
by Ross, Peter (Peter Alan).
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BookPublisher: London : Headline, 2023Description: 388 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781472281920 (hbk.) :; 1472281926 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 726.5094 ROSSubject(s): Church buildings -- Great Britain | Christianity -- Great Britain -- 21st century | Religion | Religion | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Architecture: religious buildings | Religion & beliefs | Christian Churches, denominations, groups | Aspects of religion | Great Britain -- Church historySummary: Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles. Peter Ross sets out to tell their stories, and through them a story of Britain. Join him as he visits the unassuming Norfolk church which contains a disturbing secret, and London's mighty cathedrals with their histories of fire and love. Meet cats and bats, monks and druids, angels of oak and steel.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 726.5094 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003114000X |
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| 726.5 TAY How to read a church: an illustrated guide to images, symbols and meanings in churches and cathedrals | 726.5094 BRO The English village church | 726.5094 HYD Britain's lost churches : the forgotten holy sites of Britain's Christian past / | 726.5094 ROS Steeple chasing : around Britain by church / | 726.59 BEN Holy terrors: | 726.6094 SOM Ships of heaven : the private life of Britain's cathedrals / | 726.65 BUR St Paul's Cathedral |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles. Peter Ross sets out to tell their stories, and through them a story of Britain. Join him as he visits the unassuming Norfolk church which contains a disturbing secret, and London's mighty cathedrals with their histories of fire and love. Meet cats and bats, monks and druids, angels of oak and steel.
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