Parsonages

AvKate Tiller

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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The parsonage has provided the central hub for local towns and villages for hundreds of years – this is the story of their evolution, architecture and changing occupants.From the middle ages to the present day the houses of local clergy – parsonages, vicarages and rectories – have been among the most significant buildings in parishes throughout England. Architecturally some of the best and most fully documented domestic buildings, their history is that of the small and medium sized house, from medieval vernacular to the bespoke designs of leading Victorian architects and the more modest homes of today’s clergy.The lives lived in the parsonage, factual and fictional (from Austen to Trollope and the televised struggles of ‘Rev’ in London’s East End in the 2010s) reveal not just a building, but a hub of spiritual and secular activity, at the heart of local life and linking it to wider, national history.In this engaging introduction, Kate Tiller brings together the architectural and social histories of the parsonage, drawing on the evidence of buildings, archival and literary accounts, and contemporary and modern images, to depict parsonages, their occupants and how their histories may be traced.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-25
Mått:142 x 206 x 8 mm
Vikt:220 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Shire Library
Antal sidor:88
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781784421373

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Dr Kate Tiller is Reader Emerita in English Local History at Oxford University, a Fellow of Kellogg College and a Visiting Fellow in English Local History at the University of Leicester. She has a longstanding interest in the religious and social history of local communities on which she has taught and published extensively. She was born in a Fenland vicarage built in 1857.

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Parsonages packs a lot in across six chronological chapters, yet remains highly accessible. Indeed, it is an excellent book for anyone new to the topic. There is a brief explanation of what might first appear to be bewildering terms and phases: the distinction between a rectory and vicarage, appropriated livings, Tithe Commutation etc. There are over 70 colour illustrations – almost one per page – all of which provide helpful exemplars. Moreover, this book can help those whose appetites have been whetted by offering practical advice for research.

Innehållsförteckning

Parsonage Histories: Houses, Priests and PeopleSetting the Pattern: Medieval Priests’ HousesThe Post-Reformation ParsonageGeorgian Parsonages: A Golden Age?Victorian and Edwardian HeydayVicarages and Rectories: The Recent PastFurther ReadingTracing the History of a Parsonage: A Checklist of SourcesIndex