Britains Holiest Places
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Author | : Nick Mayhew-Smith |
Publisher | : Lifestyle Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780954476748 |
Britain's vast spiritual heritage will enchant anyone with a sense of the sacred. Celtic healing pools, ancient shrines, exotic saints, spectacular artworks, soaring cathedrals, mystical islands and humble rustic churches bring 2,000 years of belief vividly to life.
Author | : Guy Hayward |
Publisher | : Heartwood Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1671 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0954476794 |
Britain’s Pilgrim Places captures the spirit of 2,000 years of history, heritage and wonder. It is the complete guide to every spiritual treasure, including 500 enchanting holy places throughout England, Wales and Scotland and covers all major pilgrimage routes.
Author | : John Michell |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nick Mayhew-Smith |
Publisher | : SPCK |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0281077355 |
Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places. Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a journey into the heart of the Celtic wilderness, exploring the deep-seated impulse to mark natural places as holy. It ends with a vision of how we can recover our harmony with the rest of creation: with the landscape, the weather and the wildlife, and ultimately with the body itself. Follow the footsteps of holy men and women such as Columba, Patrick, Cuthbert, Gildas, Aidan, Bede, Ninian, Etheldreda, Samson and others into enchanting Celtic landscapes, and learn the unvarnished truth behind the stories that shape our spiritual and natural heritage.
Author | : Martin Palmer |
Publisher | : Piatkus |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0748130497 |
SACRED LAND will enable you to discover the hidden secrets and meaning of the landscape around you, town or country, modern or old, wherever you live in Britain. There has been a dramatic growth in interest in our own history, buildings, landscape, sacred places, beliefs and culture over the last few years and this book will equip you with the tools to unlock the meaning, stories and history that are literally embedded in our landscape. It takes us from street names to churches; from hill forts to burial mounds; from the way a road bends to the shapes of fields in order to understand better the land that lies beneath our feet. In the literal shape of our countryside can be detected the eddies of time, politics, belief, warfare, passion and the durability of the human existence. SACRED LAND is a fascinating, accessible read and the perfect reference guide to have in your home or in your car. It will be of interest to everyone who loves history, sacred places and sacred history, and those who like to explore their ancestry and roots.
Author | : Helen Gittos |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0199270902 |
One of the first studies to consider how church rituals were performed in Anglo-Saxon England. Brings together evidence from written, archaeological, and architectural sources. It will be of particular interest to architectural specialists keen to know more about liturgy, and church historians who would like to learn more about architecture.
Author | : Mick Sharp |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 9781854107220 |
During the thousand years and more that separated the final collapse of the Romano-British civilization from the Reformation of the 16"th" century, the British landscape filled with sites that still remind us that this was once a land of saints and martyrs, shrines and pilgrimages. This evocative guide reveals the meaning of this landscape, so rich in holiness, by exploring the lives and legends of the saints who made it. In the process, it transports us back in time to a place where evil spirits, visions, and miracles were commonplace. In words and photographs, The Way and the Light enables the reader to experience the sense of sacred that still permeates Britain's holiest places.
Author | : John Michell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Christian antiquities |
ISBN | : 9780906362631 |
An informative companion for travelers seeking the ancient spirit of this sacred land, this guide takes readers to ruined abbeys and cathedrals, pagan sites, shrines of saints, and visionairies.
Author | : John Michell |
Publisher | : Nicholson |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9780747100836 |
Author | : Roger O'Reilly |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2024-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786788128 |
Packed with legends, sea lore and exciting true-life tales, this is a highly giftable treasure trove of Britain's top 100 lighthouses, each one illustrated by award-winning artist Roger O'Reilly. This is a unique celebration of 100 of the most dramatic and storied lighthouses along the coasts of Britain. Illustrated with fantastic retro art by award-winning artist Roger O'Reilly, this guide to the sentinels that guard Britain's shores is aimed at walkers, art lovers, maritime and countryside enthusiasts, and anyone who just loves lighthouses!. From the Lizard in Cornwall to Muckle Flugga at the northern tip of the Shetlands, and out to the forbidding rock stations that lie offshore in the path of ferocious and unforgiving seas, Roger O'Reilly has selected the very best of Britain's lighthouses with all their sea legends, folklore and tales of ghosts, shipwrecks and endurance. Including: Souter on the Sunderland coast, reputed to be haunted by Grace Darling’s niece Isabella, who lived here in the late 1880s. Staff have reported spoons floating in mid-air, unexplained temperature drops, and even being clutched by unseen hands. Ardnamurchan in the far west of Scotland, so remote that its builders came down with scurvy, and fresh fruit and vegetables along with a doctor had to be shipped out to help them. Trinity Buoy Wharf – who knew there was a lighthouse in the heart of London? It's now home to the Longplayer, a continuous 1,000-year long piece of music that will run until 31st December 2999. Smalls, off the Pembrokeshire coast, where in 1801 one keeper died and the other went mad, waiting almost four months for rescue while his dead colleague, fastened to the outside rail because the corpse had started to decompose, stared through the window at him accusingly. Lundy South, occupied by Barbary pirates during the 1600s, and in the 18th century the base of Thomas Benson, one time MP for Barnstaple and Devon’s most notorious smuggler.