Notes On The Churches Of Kent..
Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with blind stamped decorative borders on boards. Deckled edges. Extremities, but otherwise a good copy. Address embossed on verso of first free endpaper. Bookplate.
£15.00
Publisher
John Murray, Albemarle Street.,
Place
London
Date
1877
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xiv + [ii] + 351 pp. + [1] + 32 pp. publisher's catalogue.
Illustrations
Illustrated by wood engravings in text.
Notes
Thorough book covering 312 churches, mostly surveyed before the 'restorations' of the Victorians, and recording many original features since destroyed. It also, however, details the dilapidation into which some had fallen before such restoration, as in the case of St. Mary and St Eanswith, Folkestone: 'The exterior has suffered much mutilation, and has a ragged appearance; the walls are chiefly of flint. Most of the windows of the nave are modern, of the vilest description. The west end of the church is wretched patchwork, the nave having been cut short on that side, probably by the damage done by a storm, and the west wall rebuilt in most niggardly Incongruous style.'
[Stock No. 17326]
Subjects
Architecture • Churches • History • Kent