Buy this book on-line GRAY**, TODD: : DEVON'S FIFTY BEST CHURCHESUK.EXETER,DEVON.THE MINT PRESS,2011. ISBN 9781903356609.
UK,8vo s/back,wraps,illustrated,1st edn.NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue,virtually as new.No owner inscrptn,absence of publisher's price,Bright,crisp,clean,glossy montage'd thumbnail,colour photographic front card cover with white,gold-coloured lettering to front, similar coloured lettering to black background spine/backstrip also without any reading creases to same,rear cover with colour illustrated map and A-W list of churches and synopsis; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading crease to any pages' corner tips - unread apart from my own collation.UK,8vo s/back,wraps,1st edn,7-208pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's note,Bishop of Exeter's foreword,an introduction covering Mediaeval - 20thC chronology, alphabetical A-W churches descriptions etc.,each with a thumbnail,colour photographic headpiece and thumbnail colour illustrated location inset and assorted accompanying colour scenic+ architectural photographs,sources and an index; plus [unpaginated] half- title with b/w photograph of church's stained glass window detail to its reverse,title page,and a contents list/table.
See also, my book ID rja395211 for author's BLACKSHIRTS in DEVON,UK 8vo wraps,softback, SIGNED,1st edn.
Devon's Anglican churches are our greatest storehouse of ancient treasures but the sheer number of them (there are more than 600) is so daunting that few people discover which ones are particularly worth visiting.This book reveals where they can be found and provides a historical framework to understand them.Fifty buildings have been selected,as a personal choice,which hold the most outstanding examples of stained glass,fonts,carved bench-ends, screens,memorials and pulpits.These churches continue to fulfil their main purpose as centres of faith but they can also be visited for those who appreciate extraordinary items of beauty,and often local craftsmanship,which are made of wood,stone,glass and metal.
Dr Todd Gray has travelled more than 8,000 miles through the lanes and by-ways of Devon to select the most outstanding churches in the county.he is Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University and the author of more than 40 books on the history of Devon.
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