Research Catalog

Title

Parsonages / Kate Tiller.

Author

Tiller, Kate

Publication

Oxford, UK : Shire Publications Ltd, 2016.

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Description

88 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 21 cm.

Summary

"From the Middle Ages to the present day, parsonages--vicarages, rectories, and later manses, presbyteries, and chapel houses--have been among the most significant dwellings in every kind of British community. Their roles have been wide and varied. Architecturally important, and ranging from medieval vernacular buildings to the bespoke house designs of leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the more modest homes of today's clergy, parsonages are important not only as buildings but for the part they--and their occupants--have played in the life of local communities, and in their links with the wider world. The parsonage, a hub of activity and connection, a place of change and continuity, provides fascinating historical insights both general and local. This study draws on the evidence of architecture, official documents, private records, literary accounts, and contemporary and modern images to build a picture of parsonages and their occupants. It includes a section on tracing the history of a parsonage."--Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Shire library ; no. 786

Uniform Title

Shire library ; no. 786.

Subjects

• Parsonages > England > History
• Parsonages > Social aspects > England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86) and index.

Contents

Parsonage histories: houses, priests, and people -- Setting the pattern: medieval priests' houses -- The post-Reformation parsonage -- Georgian parsonages: a golden age? -- Victorian and Edwardian heyday -- Vicarages and rectories: the recent past.

ISBN

• 9781784421373
• 1784421375

OCLC

• 910980500
• SCSB-5861843

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries