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This handy, easy-to-carry book provides the reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of churches. Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, readers 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 How to Read series, How to Read Churches is a practical guide, showing readers how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building. The perfect companion to How to Read Buildings.

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture Religious buildings

• Full title: How to Read Churches
• Author: Denis R McNamara
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781408128367
• ISBN: 1408128365
• ID: 04349003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 138 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. February 2011

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