Publisher's Synopsis
111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss
takes you through the doors of 111 rarely visited churches, but which,
with the help of this informative guide are now on the map! With their
spires, towers, columns and capitals, vaults and arches, carvings and
paintings, London churches tell us a lot about its architecture and its
history. And with their beautifully carved fonts, pulpits, carvings,
mosaics and decorative objects, they show you centuries of skill and
labour that went into making these buildings for which the main
objectives were majesty, endurance and posterity.
Following the little
black crosses on her mini A to Z, Londoner Emma Rose Barber takes you to
a ultra-modern church made in the Brutalist style, to a church once so
dark, and now so light, a bombed church, now hollowed out, containing
the most romantic garden in London, to churches where you can sip coffee
in the aisles and nave...
