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Church Going
Andrew Ziminski
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Architektur
Description
Churches are many things to us - they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history.
Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.
Reviews
A wonderful behind-the-scenes history, where time works on a different scale and stone is a living, breathing entity ... by a master craftsman whose expertise connects him to the generations that came before him
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There are few reading pleasures that compare with a passionate expert describing their work, and Ziminski stands proudly in this field ... remarkable
The author's eagerness to experience the past physically sets him apart from drier academic historians ... Ziminski's writing is vividly evocative and craftsmanlike ... it'
Ziminski is one of those lucky souls with rural X-ray spectacles. He looks at the countryside and sees a series of historical slides going back over several millennia ... what a magician!
This is a compelling book ... it is rooted in the making of England and is a magical read
Delicate as the threads that tie us to the past can seem, thanks to work like Ziminski'
Thoughtful, observant and well-informed, as much at ease with words and emotions as with the stone he works with
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