Waterstones How to Read Churches
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A handy and easy-to-carry book which offers a visual approach to reading the architecture of churches. Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, you 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 series, How to Read Churches is a pocket-sized practical guide showing you how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781408128367
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781408128367
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Author: Mr. G. Stevens
Rating: 5
Review: Problem is I was using super glue while mending something and now I can’t put this book down.
Author: Atavus
Rating: 1
Review: Possible purchasers should be careful. This is one of those books that you probably wouldn't have bought if you'd flicked through it in a conventional bookshop. It covers so much ground, in so many countries, as to be completely useless if wanted as a guide kept in the car while visiting, say, English churches. One small page might have an illustration from Rome, Mexico, and Philadelphia - not much help if you're currently in Norfolk! But worse than that, the information given on each item is so minimal as to be hardly worth the bother, and not much more interesting than a simple glossary. Worse still is the quality of the print: this book is a triumph of style over substance. Unless your eyes are perfect, not only is the print on the small side, but by choosing a seriffed font it nearly disappears into the background. And since the print is not particularly dark, the only way I could comfortably read it was a) with my occasional reading glasses on; and b) with a strong reading light shining on the page. So quite useless for being out and about. To repeat: if you'd seen this in a bookshop, you'd have looked elsewhere.
