Parish Church Treasures

Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naive, from prehistory to the present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its people and their changing religious observance.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

Bloomsbury Continuum

מהדורות

4

עמודים

304

ISBN

9781472917638

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata