Research Catalog

Title

Historic churches : a wasting asset / Warwick Rodwell, with Kirsty Rodwell.

Author

Rodwell, Warwick

Publication

London : Council for British Archaeology, 1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rodwell, K. A. (Kirsty A.)

Description

viii, 130 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

Presents a survey of churches in the Diocese of Chelmsford, particularly in the Archdeaconry of Colchester, designed to illuminate the problems and potentials of church archaeology - the study of the whole historic fabric and environment of ecclesiastical buildings. The survey reveals in detail for the first time the very serious extent of the numerous destructive agencies at work on our churches, graveyards, monuments, furnishings and fittings; it is urged that this destruction be drastically reduced and that proper provision for recording the evidence be made where destruction cannot be avoided. Case studies are presented and a gazetteer of the 220 parish churches and church sites in the Archdeaconry of Colchester follows.

Series Statement

CBA research report ; no. 19

Uniform Title

Research report (Council for British Archaeology) no. 19.

Subject

• Church buildings > England > Case studies
• Christian antiquities > England > Case studies
• Historic buildings > England > Case studies

Genre/Form

• v – Reports.
• v – Architectural surveys.
• Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 129-130.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1 Explanation of the survey -- Section 2 Content of the survey -- Section 3 The present state of Churches in the Diocese -- Section 4 The history of Church archaeology in the Chelmsford Diocese -- Section 5 Case Study 1 -- Churches in an historic town -- Section 6 Case Study 2 -- A rural parish church, St.Mary and All Saints' Church, Rivenhall -- Section 7 Case Study 3 -- an Anglo-Saxon Minster, St. Botolph's Church, Hadstock -- Section 8 Case Study 4 -- Church conversions -- St.Lawrence's Church, Asheldham -- St. Michael's Church, Latchingdon -- St. Mary's Church, Little Oakley -- Section 9 Threats to Church archaeology in the diocese -- Section 10 Summary and recommendations -- Section 11 Gazetteer

LCCN

^^^77376815^//r902

OCLC

• 3771316
• SCSB-12126975

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library