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Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2017
This book - an astonishing achievement following five years of detailed and original research - presents the first systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some five hundred years. The…
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1 author picked Fifty English Steeples as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a labour of love. Flannery provides plans and architectural elevations of 50 towers of medieval parish churches (with and without spires).
These are beautiful in themselves, and his accompanying descriptions are superbly acute, detailed, and perceptive. This is a book, like Ruskin’s Stones of Venice, that makes you see buildings afresh, and better. England is the top country for towers, and this is the top book about them. It’s a book to return to again and again.
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