Main entry:

Rodwell, Warwick.

Title & Author:

Historic churches : a wasting asset / Warwick Rodwell, with Kirsty Rodwell.

Publication:

London : Council for British Archaeology, 1977.

Description:

viii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Series:

CBA research report ; no. 19

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130).
Section 1 Explanation of the survey -- Section 2 Content of the survey -- Section 3 The present state of Churches in the Diocese -- Section 4 The history of Church archaeology in the Chelmsford Diocese -- Section 5 Case Study 1 -- Churches in an historic town -- Section 6 Case Study 2 -- A rural parish church, St.Mary and All Saints' Church, Rivenhall -- Section 7 Case Study 3 -- an Anglo-Saxon Minster, St. Botolph's Church, Hadstock -- Section 8 Case Study 4 -- Church conversions -- St.Lawrence's Church, Asheldham -- St. Michael's Church, Latchingdon -- St. Mary's Church, Little Oakley -- Section 9 Threats to Church archaeology in the diocese -- Section 10 Summary and recommendations -- Section 11 Gazetteer

Summary:

Presents a survey of churches in the Diocese of Chelmsford, particularly in the Archdeaconry of Colchester, designed to illuminate the problems and potentials of church archaeology - the study of the whole historic fabric and environment of ecclesiastical buildings. The survey reveals in detail for the first time the very serious extent of the numerous destructive agencies at work on our churches, graveyards, monuments, furnishings and fittings; it is urged that this destruction be drastically reduced and that proper provision for recording the evidence be made where destruction cannot be avoided. Case studies are presented and a gazetteer of the 220 parish churches and church sites in the Archdeaconry of Colchester follows.

ISBN:

0900312513 (paperback)
9780900312519 (paperback)

Subject:

Church buildings England Case studies.
Christian antiquities England Case studies.
Historic buildings England Case studies.
Églises Angleterre Études de cas.
Antiquités chrétiennes Angleterre Études de cas.
Christian antiquities.
Church buildings.
Historic buildings.
England.

Form/genre:

Reports.
Architectural surveys.
Case studies.

Added entries:

Rodwell, K. A. (Kirsty A.)
Research report (Council for British Archaeology) ; no. 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287777
Call No.: BIB 229145
Status: Available