Status: Sent within 7 days
Author: Denis R. McNamara
Published: 21/02/2011
Genre: Heritage
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
This handy, easy-to-carry book provides the reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of churches.
Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, readers are taken on a journey tracing the development of the church building from the simple stone halls of the Anglo-Saxon period right through to the eclectic designs of the nineteenth century.
How to Read Churches is a practical guide, showing readers how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building.
Author: Denis R. McNamara
Published: 21/02/2011
Genre: Heritage
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
This handy, easy-to-carry book provides the reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of churches.
Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, readers are taken on a journey tracing the development of the church building from the simple stone halls of the Anglo-Saxon period right through to the eclectic designs of the nineteenth century.
How to Read Churches is a practical guide, showing readers how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building.