Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland - Couverture rigide

Thorold, Henry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002177161 ISBN 13 : 9780002177160

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

This guide to monastic ruins in the British Isles looks at ruins that range from great buildings like Fountains Abbey and Rievaulx to the tiny fragments of obscurer priories. The book includes a history of the monastic orders in Britain as well as essays on their particular architectural styles. Henry Thorold is the author of the "Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories" and winner of the Thomas Cook Award for the best guide-book of the year.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Henry Thorold is the author of ‘Lincolnshire Churches Revisited’ and five of the ‘ Shell Guides’ to the English counties and ‘Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories’(1986). The latest, ‘The Shell Guide to Nottinghamshire’, won the 1985 Thomas cook Award for the best guidebook. A Trustee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust and Chairman of the Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust, he lives in Marston Hall near Grantham, home of the Thorold family since the fourteenth century

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002177161
• ISBN 13: 9780002177160
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible