Religious Buildings

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built the...

In 16th century Italy, in the midst of the Renaissance, two powerful movements took hold. The first, the Hermetic Movement, was inspired by an anci...

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath your feet when you walk into an ancient church or through a graveyard? The mystery of what lies beneath. D...

The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished imag...

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building program that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during th...

The Invention of Melbourne defines the relationship between an architect of genius, William Wardell, and the first Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne...

Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted, Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home for 300 ye...

When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of the Old Town bel...

In medieval Edinburgh the dead were buried in the citys churchyards, with internment in the church reserved for the wealthy, but in the post-Reform...

In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the smaller, lesser-known churches of Herefordshire, Shrop...

DURHAM CATHEDRAL is regarded as the finest Romanesque building in Europe. Along with the neighbouring castle it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Her...

The countryside, towns and cities of Britain are full of churches. They represent some of the most iconic, beautiful and occasionally bizarre build...

After the devastation of 1666, the Church of England in the City of London was given fifty-one new buildings in addition to the twenty-four that ha...

Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2017 This book an astonishing achievement following five years of detailed and original research pre...

Considered one of the most important religious structures of the twentieth century, the Chapel of the Rosary in Vince was regarded by Matisse himse...

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity...

Britain is a treasure trove of medieval architecture. Almost every village and town in the land has a church that was built during the period, whos...