Description

Contains over 250 pages and 110 illustrations of abbeys and churches in England and Wales with descriptions and their history.

Chapters in this book:

St. George's Chapel, Windsor: The English Escurial

Deepdale: A Lay Bishop's Church

Beverley Minster

Hadleigh: A Martyr's Church

Cirencester: A Typical Country Town

The Chapels In "The Tower" For King and Captive

Olney: A Hymn-Writers' Church

Scarborough And Filey: Two Yorkshire Health Resorts

Great Brington: Graves of the Washingtons and Spencers

Abingdon: A Church of Many Aisles

Wrexham and Gresford: Two Great Welsh Churches

St. Lawrence and Bonchurch; Perivale; Bemerton: Some Tiny Churches

Fairford: Some Famous Windows

St. Mary's, Oxford, and St. Mary's, Cambridge: Two University Churches

Swaffham Prior and the Trimleys: Two Churches in One Churchyard

St. Botolph's, Boston: A Beacon in the Fens

Ottery St. Mary: A Great Devonshire Church

Leeds and Doncaster: Memories of Recent Labour

Amesbury: An Ancient Sanctuary

St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich: A Famous Civic Church

Ashford: The Home of the Smythes

Chenies: Graves of the Russells

Louth: A Tall Spire in the Plains

St. Clement Danes': The Church of the Great Lexicographer

Cobham: A Series of Ancient Brasses

Selby: A Great Yorkshire Abbey

Brixworth and Bradford-on-Avon: A Century After Augustine

Wimborne Minster: A Saxon Foundation

Halifax and Bradford: Among Spinners and Weavers

All Saints', Derby: "The Pride of Derby Town"

Berwick-on-Tweed: A Puritans' Church

Evesham Abbey: A Destructive Reformation

Higham Ferrer: An Archbishop's Thankoffering

Cartmel: A Tower Within a Tower

Ludlow: "The Noblest Parish Church in England"

East Dereham, Berkeley, and Bronllys: Some Campanile Towers

Pershore: The Fragment Which Remains

Howden: A Story Writ in Stone

St. Peter's, Wolverhampton: In the Heart of the Black Country

Bishopsbourne: Memories of the "Judicious Hooker"

Excerpt from the book:

The two side chapels, that of Rokeby on the north, and Holdsworth on the south, almost produce the effect of transepts, though the latter is much the larger. The font is a Norman one, of stone, with fine Perpendicular canopy. Near it is the quaint figure of an old man, which holds the poor-box. It represents "Old Tristram," in his life-time a professional beggar in Halifax. At the west end of the south aisle stands what is to some the most interesting monument in the church. It is in memory of Robert Farrer, a native of Halifax, last Prior of Nostel, subsequently Protestant Bishop of St. David's, and finally burnt for heresy in 1555.