How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Christian Architecture
Author/Editor | McNamara, Denis (Author) |
ISBN: 9781408128367
Pub Date | 21/02/2011 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions (mm) | 165(h) * 135(w) |
This handy, easy-to-carry book will provide the reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of the church.
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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. Another addition to the bestselling How to Read series, 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. The perfect companion to How to Read Buildings.