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By John Goodall,Paul Barker

Our parish church buildings represent a residing patrimony with no unique eu parallel. Their cultural riches are fantastic, not just for his or her caliber and volume, but in addition their range and curiosity. effective artwork and structure the following mix unpredictably with the sensible, the curious and the naïve, from prehistory to the current day, to shape an unsung nationwide museum which provides its contents in a daily atmosphere with out curators or formal monitors. simply because church treasures often stay within the constructions they have been created for, effectively interpreted they inform from millions of neighborhood views the heritage of the country, its humans and their altering spiritual observance.

John Goodall's weekly sequence in Country Life has celebrated specific gadgets in or round church buildings which are of exceptional inventive, social or old significance, to underline either the intrinsic curiosity of parish church buildings and the insights that they and their contents provide into English historical past of each interval. Parish Church Treasures contains and considerably expands this fabric to inform afresh the amazing background of the parish church. It celebrates the specific personality of church buildings as areas to go to while delivering an authoritative and up to date background at a time while the use and maintenance of those structures and the care in their contents is very contentious.

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