Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

Peter Ross

Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
11 May 2023
Pages
352
ISBN
9781472281920

Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

Peter Ross

Praise for Peter Ross

‘Ross is a wonderfully evocative writer, deftly capturing a sense of place and history, while bringing a deep humanity to his subject. He has written a delightful book.’ - The Guardian

‘Fascinating … Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable.’ - The Observer

‘A phenomenal, lyrical, beautiful book.’ - Frank Turner

‘The author’s humanity has acted as a beacon of light in the darkness.’ - The Sunday Times

From the author of A Tomb With a View - Scottish Non Fiction book of the Year

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.

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