England's Thousand Best Churches - Simon Jenkins

Churches to most people are a place where you used to have to go as a child as part of school or cub scout activities or occasionally attend a wedding or a funeral, all of which seems just a necessary evil to be endured. This book tries to show you that there are more to churches than the ceremonies of hatching, matching and despatching. It is a massive work of over eight hundred pages and acts mainly as a work of reference, and tries to present englands churches as items in a museum of ecclesiastical history. The book starts with an overview of the development of church building, the styles ... more