How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Christian Architecture

This handy, easy-to-carry book will providethe reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of thechurch.

A handy and easy-to-carry book which offers a visual approach to reading the architecture of churches.

Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, you 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 series, How to Read Churches is a pocket-sized practical guide showing you how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building.

• | Author: Dr Denis R. McNamara
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781408128367
• | ISBN-10: 1408128365