Description for Parsonages
Paperback. From the Middle Ages, parsonages - vicarages and rectories, and later manses, presbyteries and chapel. This study draws on the evidence of architecture, official documents, private records, literary accounts and contemporary and modern images to build a picture of parsonages and their occupants. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AMN; AMX; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
From the middle ages to the present day the houses of local clergy - parsonages, vicarages and rectories - have been among the most significant buildings in parishes throughout England. Architecturally some of the best and most fully documented domestic buildings, their history is that of the small and medium sized house, from medieval vernacular to the bespoke designs of leading Victorian architects and the more modest homes of today's clergy. The lives lived in the parsonage, factual and fictional (from Austen to Trollope and the televised struggles of `Rev' in London's East End in the 2010s) reveal not just ... Read more
From the middle ages to the present day the houses of local clergy - parsonages, vicarages and rectories - have been among the most significant buildings in parishes throughout England. Architecturally some of the best and most fully documented domestic buildings, their history is that of the small and medium sized house, from medieval vernacular to the bespoke designs of leading Victorian architects and the more modest homes of today's clergy. The lives lived in the parsonage, factual and fictional (from Austen to Trollope and the televised struggles of `Rev' in London's East End in the 2010s) reveal not just ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Shire Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784421373
SKU
V9781784421373
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Ref
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About Kate Tiller
Dr Kate Tiller is Reader Emerita in English Local History at Oxford University, a Fellow of Kellogg College and a Visiting Fellow in English Local History at the University of Leicester. She has a longstanding interest in the religious and social history of local communities on which she has taught and published extensively. She was born in a Fenland vicarage ... Read more
Reviews for Parsonages
Parsonages packs a lot in across six chronological chapters, yet remains highly accessible. Indeed, it is an excellent book for anyone new to the topic. There is a brief explanation of what might first appear to be bewildering terms and phases: the distinction between a rectory and vicarage, appropriated livings, Tithe Commutation etc. There are over 70 colour illustrations ... Read more