Medieval Church Architecture

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Shire Library no. 718. ISBN-13: 978 0 74781 212 8

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COVER IMAGE

Cover design and photography by Peter Ashley. Front cover: Perpendicular-style capitals and other details at Ripon Cathedral, after 1502. Back cover: Twelfth-century corbel grotesque at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.

DEDICATION

To all my students, especially Dave Evans, whose idea this book was.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Photograph copyright is acknowledged as follows:

Alamy, page 60; Russell Butcher, diagrams on pages 6 and 7; Steve Cadman, page 66; Rex Harris, page 39 (bottom); Simon D. Jenkins, page 21; Roy Reed, page 70 (bottom); Shutterstock, page 50.

All remaining photographs are © copyright Jon Cannon, with grateful thanks to: the Dean and Chapter of Bristol Cathedral, for pages 18, 28 and 58; the Vicar of St Mary Redcliffe, for page 51; the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, for pages 50, 57 and 59; reproduced by kind permission of Chichester Cathedral, page 27; and reproduced with kind permission of the Governing Body of Westminster School, page 81. Linework is from F. Mackenzie, The Architectural Antiquities of the Collegiate Chapel of St Stephen, Westminster, London, 1844, with kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 63; Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, London, 1845, pages 72 and 82; John Henry Parker, An ABC of Gothic Architecture, Oxford, 1913, page 42 and 58. Textual quotes: Hugh of Avranches, as translated by Charles Garton, The Metrical Life of St Hugh, Honeywood Press, 1986; John Leland, quoted by Christopher Wilson in Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (editors), Gothic: Art for England 1400–1547, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2003; John Lydgate, Troy Book (book II), in Henry Bergen (editor), Early English Text Society, 1906, spelling modernised.

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