Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them

by Sidney Heath

CONTENTS

[Author's Preface]
[Dedication]
[Introduction]
[Chapter I.]	Early British Churches
[Chapter II.]	Early Church Architecture
[Chapter III.]	The Saxon and Norman Styles
[Chapter IV.]	The Early English Style
[Chapter V.]	The Decorated Style
[Chapter VI.]	The Perpendicular Style
[Chapter VII.]	The Renaissance and Later
[Chapter VIII.]	Church Furniture and Ornaments
[Chapter IX.]	Bells and Belfries
[Chapter X.]	The Spire: Its Origin and Development
[Chapter XI.]	Stained Glass
[Chapter XII.]	Crypts
[Chapter XIII.]	How to describe an Old Church
[Appendix]	A Glossary of the Principal Terms used in Ecclesiastical Architecture
[Bibliography]
[Index]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Plate 1]	Foundations of a Romano-British Church (Frontispiece)
[Plate 2]	The Church of St. Margaret, Lynn
[Plate 3]	A Fine Perpendicular Tower, St. Mary, Taunton
[Plate 4]	Sedilia and Chantry, Luton
	[The Various Forms of Arches]
	[Plan of a Typical Gothic Cruciform Parish Church, Luton]
	[Examples of Gothic Windows]
	[Examples of Buttresses]
	[A Rood Screen, with a Restoration of the Rood]
	[The Church of S. Martin, Canterbury]
	[Window Built with Roman Brick, Swanscombe]
	[A Reputed Saxon Doorway, Bishopstone]
	[Tower of Earls' Barton Church]
	[An Example of Norman Tower, Bishopstone]
	[A Norman Pier Arcade, Abbots Langley]
	[Examples of Norman Mouldings]
	[A Late Norman Parish Church, Castle Rising]
	[West Doorway, Rochester Cathedral]
	[Tympanum of Norman Doorway, Fordington St. George]
	[Examples of Norman Capitals]
	[A Curious Norman Capital, Seaford]
	[Norman and Early English Doorways, Dunstable Priory Church]
	[Windows, Showing the Origin of Tracery]
	[An Early English Arch, Rochester Cathedral]
	[Wall Arcading, Showing Junction of Norman and Early English Masonry,Dunstable Priory Church]
	[An Early English Doorway, Huntingdon]
	[A Group of Thirteenth Century Lancet Windows, Ockham]
	[Salisbury Cathedral]
	[Examples of Early English Capitals and Ornament]
	[A Late Decorated Window in a Parish Church, East Sutton]
	[Examples of Decorated Ornament]
	[Examples of Perpendicular Ornament]
	[Early Perpendicular Parish Church, Yeovil]
	[A Fine Parish Church, Showing Rich Perpendicular Work, Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk]
	[A Perpendicular Doorway, Merton College]
	[A Perpendicular Porch, King's Lynn]
	[An English Renaissance Church, S. Stephen, Walbrook]
	[A Typical Cornish Font]
	[The Sanctuary Knocker, Durham Cathedral]
	[The Baptistery in Luton Church]
	[An Example of a Leaden Font of the Late Norman Period]
	[A Reputed Saxon Font, Shaldon]
	[A Detached Holy-Water Stoup of Unusual Design]
	[A Typical Somerset Bench-End, Spaxton]
	[A Richly-Carved Pulpit and Canopy, Edlesborough]
	[Screen with Rood Loft, Kenton]
	[The Carved Oak Balustrade in Compton Church]
	[Bell Turret for Three Bells, Radipole]
	[The Best Example of a Saxon Spire or Pyramidal Roof, Sompting]
	[Leighton Buzzard Church, with Early English Tower and Spire]
	[A Parish Church with a Shingle Broach Spire, Edenbridge]
	[Interior Elevation of a Bay of a Church]

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STYLES OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE.

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.