How to Read Churches: A crash course in ecclesiastical architecture

 How to Read Churches: A crash course in ecclesiastical architecture

Dr Denis R. McNamara

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.

Author: Dr Denis R. McNamara

Published by Herbert Press

Published on: 21st February 2011

ISBN: ISBN 978-1-4081-2836-7