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1835 The Anglo-Saxon Church : Henry Soames : Its History, Revenues & Character
1835 The Anglo-Saxon Church : Henry Soames : Its History, Revenues & Character
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The Anglo Saxon Church: its History Revenues and General Character
By Henry Soames
Published by John W Parker, London, 1835. First Edition. Original cloth binding, 8vo, pp xxxv, 316, plus 20 pages of publisher's adverts at the rear.
This book once belonged to The Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh and there are a couple of ink stamps to front endpapers only. No other ink stamps to the book or other library marks such as cards etc. A very good copy with the original cloth binding remaining good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Small name stamped to the top of title page. Overall very good.
By Henry Soames
Published by John W Parker, London, 1835. First Edition. Original cloth binding, 8vo, pp xxxv, 316, plus 20 pages of publisher's adverts at the rear.
This book once belonged to The Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh and there are a couple of ink stamps to front endpapers only. No other ink stamps to the book or other library marks such as cards etc. A very good copy with the original cloth binding remaining good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Small name stamped to the top of title page. Overall very good.
Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture
There are very few churches that are mainly Anglo-Saxon (and none that are 100% so). For a start, there were very few stone churches at that time. Anglo-Saxon churches were mainly of wood and thatch. Those that were stone were often “minster” - or monastic - churches that have over time become parish churches. Anglo-Saxons (and their less-remembered Frankish tribes the Frisians and Jutes) were not great stonemasons at all. They did not build stone castles. They were essentially agrarian people who lived mainly in scattered communities. When the Normans invaded they replaced all the wood and thatch churches with stone buildings. Where a stone church existed the Normans often, but far from invariably, incorporated what was already there.
