Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them, by Sidney Heath, Illustrated by Sidney Heath and Ethel M. Heath
The Homeland Handbooks —No. 55.
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The following periods of architectural style may be of use for the purpose of reference, but it must be borne in mind that they are more or less approximate, as each style merged by slow degrees into the next.
Sharpe gives seven periods of English architecture up to the time of the Reformation, and dates them as follows:—
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AND HOW TO STUDY THEM.
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EDITORIAL NOTE.
EARLY BRITISH CHURCHES.
EARLY CHURCH ARCHITECTURE.
THE SAXON AND NORMAN STYLES.
THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE.
THE DECORATED STYLE.
THE PERPENDICULAR STYLE.
THE RENAISSANCE AND LATER.
CHURCH FURNITURE AND ORNAMENTS.
BELLS AND BELFRIES.
THE SPIRE; ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT.
STAINED GLASS.
CRYPTS.
HOW TO DESCRIBE AN OLD CHURCH.
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