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Medieval Architecture - Ecclesiastical

York Minster: The St William Window
by Thomas French
This sumptuous, glossy volume presents the St William window of York Minster in superb detail. There is an introduction to the window, providing a historical summary of who St William was and the origins of his cult, as well as the background to the window itself. A catalogue takes the reader through the window panel by panel, each with a black and white image. The end of the book shows some of the panels in colour. 124p, b/w illus, 24 col pls ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856
by Michael Port
Professor Ports study of the early nineteenth-century Church Building Commission and its churches first appeared in 1961 and has long been difficult to obtain. He has now thoroughly revised it, adding much new material and a wealth of illustrations, many of which have never been published before. The book tells of the setting up of the Commission to build churches in the godless new towns, its trials and tribulations as it went about its work, ...
Hardback. Price GB £49.95

The Georgian Parish Church: Monuments to Posterity
by Terry Friedman
This is the first substantial study of Georgian church architecture for over 40 years and is full of new discoveries and surprises. It consists of an overview of major developments during the period followed by six in-depth studies of important individual, though neglected, churches. These draw on contemporary records which reveal much about the designing and building of Anglican parish churches during the 18th century. Together they explore ...
Paperback. Price GB £33.95

St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Volume 1: History, Archaeology, and Architecture
by Warwick Rodwell with Caroline Atkins
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major programme of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish church in the UK. Excavations between 1978 and 1984 investigated most of the interior of the building, as well as a swathe of churchyard around its exterior. At the same time, a stone-by-stone record and detailed archaeological ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010: Reconstructing its History and Architecture
by Warwick Rodwell
Westminster Abbey is one of the most important and well-known medieval buildings in Europe but, despite being studied by generations of scholars, there is still much to learn about its history and architecture.

The lantern over the centre of the church is a case in point. Edward the Confessor built a great tower here, which is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. When Henry III was rebuilding the Abbey in the 1250s, a new tower was begun ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00

W.F. Pocock: Designs for Churches and Chapels
by W.F. Pocock, with an introduction by Christopher Webster
This beautifully presented volume is a faithful reproduction of W. F. Pocock's book of 1819 and a major landmark in the publication of architectural facsimiles. It is probably the most important Georgian pattern book not hitherto reprinted. This remarkable work is of fundamental importance in understanding the dynamic story of church and chapel building in the period after Waterloo, and was the only book ever produced on this subject before 1836. ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.95

York Minster: a catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass Vol.2
The great east window at York Minster, the most outstanding feature of the Lady Chapel, is one of the largest and most celebrated pieces of 15th-century stained glass in Europe. Created by John of Thornton from a flourishing school of glass-painting in Coventry, and paid for by the Bishop of Durham, the window contains a broad range of subject matter from both the Old and New Testaments. Including depictions of the Creation of the World, the ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Die Baugeschichte der Sophienkirche in Sofia
by Galina Fingarova
English summary: The unique architecture of the Hagia Sophia Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, gives it a prominent role not only in the history of the city, which assumed the name of the church, but also in the architectural history of the Balkan region and the Byzantine Empire. And yet, a critically urgent and thorough investigation of this monument has so far not taken place. With the full-scale study on the construction history of the Hagia ...
Hardback. Price GB £86.00

R.D. Chantrell (1793-1872) and the Architecture of a Lost Generation
by Christopher Webster
Chantrell along with many architects of his generation has hitherto been confined to the shadows of architectural history, shadows cast so adeptly by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists. This book reconsiders his many achievements and sets them within the context of the architectural theory and practice of his time.

After training in Soanes office and a string of compelling Classical buildings, Chantrell reinvented himself as a pioneering ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Aelfric's Abbey: Excavations at Eynsham Abbey, Oxfordshire, 1989-1992
by A Hardy, A Dodd and G D Keevill
The minster church at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, was founded in the 7th or 8th century and refounded in 1005 as a Benedictine abbey. The excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology revealed substantial remains of the abbey, tracing its history from its foundation until the Dissolution in 1538-9. The excavated precinct buildings included part of the Great Cloister, refectory, kitchens, cellars, domestic range and latrines. A programme of geophysical ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £49.95, Our Price GB £7.50