Ships Of Heaven : The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals (Paperback / Softback)Christopher Somerville

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  • 368 Pages / Published 19 Mar 2020
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‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’The SpectatorChristopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years.

Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.

‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’Church Times

Additional information

Weight 266 g
Dimensions 137 × 23 mm
ISBN-13

9780857523655

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Imprint

Doubleday

Date of Publication

19 Mar 2020

By (author)

Christopher Somerville

Pages

368

Format

Paperback / softback

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