Matthew Byrne

Church Fonts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The font is perhaps the most important part of any church. For centuries, no infant in the parish was thought to be saved from damnation until christened and fonts, as the vessels for this crucial rite of passage, were a pre-eminent tool in the Church's fight against the Devil. Standing within the public space of the church - as with pews, rood screens and chantry chapels - fonts would have been paid for by the parishioners, and so the richness of their decoration was determined by the funds available and the prevailing architectural fashions of the time. Some of the more extravagant have elaborate multi-tiered covers, raised for use via ropes or chains and pulleys. In this fascinating introduction, Matthew Byrne explores the history of fonts in churches all over the nation, highlighting some of the most notable examples and explaining their evolution across the centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784423926
• Artikelnr.: 58278138

Autorenporträt

Matthew Byrne has been exploring, studying and photographing English churches for nearly 40 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1988 for his work in architectural photography.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Font Construction and Materials The Anglo
Saxon centuries 800
1066 The Norman Period 1066
1200 The Later Middle Ages 1200
1500 The Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Victorian Age The Late Twentieth and Early Twenty
first centuries. Further Reading Places to Visit Index