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When Christopher Somerville set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals--Britain possesses more than 100--as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favorites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for 1,000 years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the peasant laborers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation and icon-smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world wars. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.

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  • Title Ships of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals
  • Author Christopher Somerville
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday Books
  • ISBN 9780857523648 / 0857523643
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture

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Christopher Somerville is the walking correspondent of the Times. He has written many travel guides for National Geographic and AAA, and he is the author of Walking in Ireland.

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London: Doubleday (Transworld Publishers/Penguin Random House), 2019. . x + 341 pages, illustrated, gift inscription to flyleaf. Chapters on the cathedrals at Wells; Lincoln; Salisbury; Chichester; Canterbury; York; Durham; Ely; Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford; Kirkwall; St Davids; St Paul's; Westminster; Armagh; Liverpool; Coventry; Inverness.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus.
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