Religious Buildings

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is known as the architect who has guided Western design philosophy for half a millennium, creating forms that have been...

This book is the story of an extraordinary survivor from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain: the Alhambra cupola, now in the Museum of Islamic A...

Durham Cathedral was completed nearly 900 years ago, after 40 years of construction. Inevitably it has suffered from the effects of time: physical ...

On September 29 and 30 1941 more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in Babyn Yar, a gorge near Kiev. This event constituted ...

This two-part volume offers an innovative analysis and interpretation of Brunelleschi's masterpiece. Part One, which is richly illustrated with ico...

This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architec...

Worcester Cathedral is one of the outstanding monuments of medieval England. This book, a revised and updated translation of the German edition (20...

Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roma...

A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawi...

Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built...

St John's Chapel, in Chichester, is a rare survivor … a Georgian proprietary chapel which has largely escaped the attentions of modernisers. By the...

Built in 1290, the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy, is a masterpiece of Italian gothic architecture. The decoration of the Cappella Nuova, commenced by...

The Churches of Surrey's introduction shows how the geology and its economy affected the design of its churches and, despite being one of England’s...

Suffolk boasts by far the greatest number of Domesday churches of any county surveyed by William the Conqueror in 1086. Over the centuries, many of...

Exterior drawings of 1823 to accompany Manning and Bray’s History of Surrey.

St Martin's has a long history stretching back more than eight hundred years – during which its life has rarely been dull. A place of prayer and of...

The richly illustrated book provides insights to cathedral‘s eventful 1200-year history, documenting and elucidating the architecture as well as th...

Canada’s first mosque, the Al Rashid mosque in Edmonton, was built in 1938. In the years since, as Canada’s Muslim population has grown, close to t...

"Communicating radical innovation is very different from discussing marginal change. Erwin's book provides a serious analysis of why, in this era o...

The cathedral church of Christ in Oxford - better known as Christ Church Cathedral - was established in 1546. It forms one half of Christ Church, t...