Ziminsky does not offer a dry or academic history of the development of church architecture, but rather takes us on a tour of the features of a church

Murals in medieval churches created a shared religious experience, suggests Andrew Ziminski

Ever wondered why Britain’s churches look the way they do? Let the stonemason and author Andrew Ziminski give you a guided tour

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For hundreds of years, the 12 days of Christmas have been a significant highlight of the English religious year. In the medieval period, churches in Britain and Ireland were vividly adorned with paint...

Journey from Paul Gauguin’s Tahiti to Vincent van Gogh’s Arles, taking in auction houses and our finest parish churches on the way

In ‘Church Going’, the poem that gives this charming book its title, Philip Larkin talks about ‘one of the crew that tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were… Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique’. We...

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