The Temple Church in London: History, Architecture, Art
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1783272635 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William Whyte, Christopher Wilson.
Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Despite its extraordinary importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or critical attention, a gap which is remedied by this volume. Richly illustrated with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster casts.. It holds one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Its round nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any English building of its period. The luminous thirteenth-century choir, intended for the burial of Henry III, is of exceptional beauty. Major developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial restoration programme in the early 1840s. It considers the New Temple as a whole in the middle ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth century to its war-time damage in the twentieth
Great read Sue Carter The book is a MUST for anyone researching the Temple Church. Full of good information and theories, relating to all areas of the church, structure, effigies and history.
A marvellously thorough treatment of almost every aspect of the history of the Temple church. From an architectural and art-historical point of view this is an important scholarly publication. The richness of the Temple church's history has never lacked for investigators - but none have been so thorough as those in the present volume. --Medieval Archaeology . It is revisionist and it is historiographic, and it is well supported by over a hundred black-and-white plates, as well as twelve colour plates; it generally deserves the highest praise. --Church MonumentsProbably the most important publication about Temple Church in recent years. --The RicardianCharged full of absorbing detail, resulting from the considerable standard of scholarship with which each author enriches the whole. This has been achieved in full measure, and it is also an