Steeple Chasing

Around Britain by Church

De: Peter Ross

Narrado por: Peter Ross

From the author of A Tomb with a View - a celebration of the weird and wonderful churches of Britain.

Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles.

Award-winning writer Peter Ross sets out to tell their stories, and through them a story of Britain. Join him as he visits the unassuming Norfolk church which contains a disturbing secret, and London's mighty cathedrals with their histories of fire and love. Meet cats and bats, monks and druids, angels of oak and steel.

Steeple Chasing, though it sometimes strikes an elegiac note, is a song of praise. It celebrates churches for their beauty and meaning, and for the tales they tell. It is about people as much as place, flesh and bone not just flint and stone. From the painted hells of Surrey to the holy wells of Wales, consider this a travel book...with bells on.

©2023 Peter Ross (P)2023 Headline Publishing Group Limited

A beautiful book

. As a. non believer I was nevertheless entranced by the gorgeous writing and fascinated by the stories he tells witn such reverence and awe and pure joy. . Thank you mr Ross for this book.