Summoning St Michael
Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire
Oxbow Books (Publisher)
Published on 18. September 2006
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-1-84217-213-1 (ISBN)
Description
The earliest Romanesque towers of Lincolnshire constitute one of the most remarkable groupings of architectural remains at parish level, of the era of the Norman conquest of England. Forming west towers to a series of ordinary parish churches rather than parts of cathedrals or great monastic institutions, they are a distinctive feature of a number of the county's towns and villages. They have been variously described - as a group or individually - as Late Anglo-Saxon, Norman, or overlap in period. The fieldwork on which this study was based was undertaken as part of the British Academy's Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture series. Given their late date, however, (all the sculptural material post-dated, and was probably stylistically derived from, work on the new Lincoln Cathedral of 1073 onwards) it was recognised that the value of the Lincolnshire material, and the way to extract a rich understanding from it, lay in treating the architecture of the towers as a whole, rather than soley cataloguing items of sculpture. The present book, while fully reporting on the sculptural details, also addresses the towers as whole architectural artefacts. It seeks an understanding of the social context in which late 11-Century buildings were erected, and explores the role of towers in the contemporary liturgy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
314 b/w illus
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84217-213-1 (9781842172131)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
by David Stocker and Paul Everson
Content
Introduction
Description and Definition of the 'Lincolnshire Tower' Group
Discussion
Inventory
Description and Definition of the 'Lincolnshire Tower' Group
Discussion
Inventory