A richly illustrated and comprehensive guide, this volume explores over 1,450 cathedrals and abbeys across Britain, detailing their architecture, history, liturgy, and monastic life while highlighting their enduring religious and cultural significance.
Over one thousand castles were built in the century following the Norman Conquest.
An essential part of the fabric of our ancient churches, castles and houses, in documents, and on monuments and stained glass, heraldry represents a treasure house of information for both the historian and genealogist.
The Sutton Companion to churches
With over 2000 entries, this comprehensive single-volume guide to local history, archaeology, architecture and landscape answers many of the questions that arise in the course of local history research and travel.