The Story of our Churches and Cathedrals is a Ladybird Achievement Book first published in 1964, Series 601.
This copy is a first edition it has beige boards with a blue pictorial and blue lettering on
the front panel; blue lettering on the spine and endpaper maps on the dustcover. The original price was 2'6 Net.
What is this book about?
Churches - Cathedrals - Religious Buildings - English Architecture
"This book traces the development of our churches and cathedrals from
Saxon times to the present day. With simple text and superb full colour
illustrations it describes the many interesting and beautiful features of
the various periods of architecture, and will add greatly to your
understanding and pleasure."
Contents: Stories in Stone; Saxon Churches; Saxon Towers; Norman
Architecture; Norman Walls and Towers; Triforium and Clerestory; Norman
Roofs Crypts and Windows; Early English Architecture; The Flying
Buttress; Pillars and Cloisters; The Decorated Period; The Great Lantern
of Ely; The Perpendicular Period; Large Windows and Fan Vaulting;
Timber Roofs; Fonts Moulding and Gargoyles; Shrines and Tombs; English
Renaissance; St Paul's Cathedral; Wren Churches; Eighteenth Century
Chapels; The Gothic Revival; Coventry; and The Cathedral of Today.
Author: Richard Bowood
Illustrator: Robert Ayton
Publisher: Wills & Hepwroth
First publishd: 1964
About Series 601: This series, the first to appear in the 1960s,
was very popular for it’s well-written texts and superb colour
illustrations, and added interest to the history of man's achievements,
helping children grasp a greater understanding of our past, and how
inventions of plastics, ships and railways have helped shape the world
we live in today.
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