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Title: English Parish Churches by Edwin Smith, Graham Hutton, Olive Cook ISBN: 0-500-20139-0 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Process
Comment: This is a good introduction to parish church architecture. The format presented in the book does require quite a bit of page turning but the format does produce an effective learning process.
As I read the text I turned to the photos and studied them as they were referenced in the text. At the conclusion of the text there are notes on the photos and then the photos follow. This format occurs throughout the book. After reading the text I then read the photo notes and studied the photos for a second time. This format and study method links the visual study of the photos with the textual study causing each to develop the other. As a result, the second photo exam reveals far more to the reader than the first.
This book has been very beneficial to me and I recommend it and the study method it creates.
Rating: 4
Summary: The classic guide
Comment: It seems hard to overstate the importance of the work of photographer Edwin Smith to the preservation and cataloguing of English ecclesiastical architecture. This book, first published in 1952 and substantially updated and enlarged after Smith's death in 1971, is, if not the definitive guide to the subject, probably one of the most important.
Smith's photography is enhanced by informative chapters, written by Graham Hutton, that trace the evolution of English parish church design and construction from well before the Conquest up to and through the Victorian era. Of course, the story of parish churches is also the story of the parish, and therefore the reader also will find here a fine capsule summary of changing sociological patterns over many centuries.
If I have one complaint, it's in the way the text, explanatory notes, and photos are arranged. Hutton's chapters are annotated with references to the photographic plates, which are all generally in one section following the relevant text. The explanatory notes on the photos, in turn, are in a section following the plates. So a reader who wants to look at a photo to which Hutton refers must turn ahead several pages to find the photo, and then several more pages to read, essentially, the caption to the photo. In all, it makes for a lot of flipping pages back and forth and a less than entirely efficient reading experience.
Apart from that, though, this title should have a lot of appeal, not just to architecture and art historians, but also to the not-insubstantial number of people who have affection for historic churches, the English countryside, and the preservation of both. There is much here to learn from, and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic
Comment: Classic account of the subject. Beautiful pictures. Distillation of the views of people who've spent a lifetime on this subject.
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Title: England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins, Paul Barker ISBN: 0140297952 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of England by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500019053 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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