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Informationen zum Autor Alec Clifton-Taylor, OBE was an English architectural historian, writer and TV broadcaster. Klappentext More than two hundred photographs and text trace the development of cathedral design from its Norman beginnings through the flowering of Gothic to the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Vorwort 'Alec Clifton-Taylor brilliantly explores and analyses (by period and style) the evolving pattern of our medieval cathedrals … the result is the most enjoyable and stimulating introduction to the subject that I have yet encountered' Daily Telegraph Zusammenfassung More than two hundred photographs and text trace the development of cathedral design from its Norman beginnings through the flowering of Gothic to the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword • 1. The Masterworks of English Architecture • 2. The General Aspect of England's Cathedrals • 3. The Norman Period • 4. The Earliest Cathedral Gothic • 5. The Maturity of Early English • 6. The Beginnings of Decorated • 7. The Flowering of Decorated • 8. Perpendicular • 9. The Protestant Reaction • 10. The Last Hundred Years • Notes, Visiting the Cathedrals: Summaries and Plans, Glossary
