Description
Book Synopsis
Forgotten after the Reformation, churches were revived on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with many guesses and mistakes, resulting in numerous alterations. Part One surveys their history in England from Roman ties to the present day. Part Two is a list of all 800 ancient parish churches and religious houses in Cornwall and Devon.
Trade Review
". . . This volume is easy to use and presents valuable information, much of it, in effect, for the first time. It provides a useful and inexpensive basis for further investigation." (Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 49, No. 3, July 1998) ‘ . . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow.’ (English Church Dedications Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997)
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One
English church dedications; the period before 1066
From 1066 to the Reformation
From the Reformation to 1800
Church dedications since 1800
The gazetteer and how to use it.
Part Two
Gazetteer of church dedications
Church dedications in Cornwall
Church dedications in Devon.
