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More poeple than ever are visiting churchs, but they are often baffled by the architectural and technical terms that abound in guidebooks.This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a church visits and is illustrated with more than 300 drawings.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Just what I had been looking for!,
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This review is from: Church Architecture: A Glossary of Terms (Discovering) (Paperback)
I am very interested in old churches, and for a long time I have been looking for good books about churches that are not just coffee-table books, but that also do not assume that you are an expert on architecture and art history. This thin book gave me just the crash course I needed to read some of the more advanced books. I've actually read it several times, and keep consulting it still. There are similar book out there, like the The Sutton Companion to Churches. That one is more detailed, but also contains a lot of terms that you are less likely to come across. This books gives you the basic terms that will enable you to read the standard books about churches and actually understand what they are talking about!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Great value for money,
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This review is from: Church Architecture: A Glossary of Terms (Discovering) (Paperback)
An very portable glossary of church terms with lots of illustrations. I've just volunteered for a survey project in London which is looking at the condition and significance of urban places of worship. Although I have been involved in many surveys and excavations they all deal with the remains of structures which predate urban environments. I was therefore in serious need of a descriptive vocabulary specific to churches, amongst others.
This does the job, fits in my pocket, weighs almost nothing and was inexpensive. The illustrations are black and white sketches. There are only a few terms which I had hoped to find which appear to be missing, and they concern very small and specific areas of church architecture. Being a glossary it helps if you know what something is called before you look it up, particularly if that particular term is not illustrated. I find it most useful for working back from the illustration to the term, but of course not every term is illustrated. If every term was illustrated, however, it would be a vast book, which would undermine one of its key benefits. And to be 100% fair the text on the back cover says that the book is largely intended to demystify the tehcnical terms used in guide books, not to help people work back from the architectural features to the terms. Great value for money and does what it says on the box.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Compact but informative,
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This review is from: Church Architecture: A Glossary of Terms (Discovering) (Paperback)
This is only a small book,but it carries a lot of useful information about church architectural features. I have found it most helpful in my current activity of visting and painting portraits of some of the old churches of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. It is easy to slip into a pocket or bag for easy reference when in the field.
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