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The Old Rectory

The Story of the English Parsonage

by Anthony Jennings

GoodBookStall Review:
Written by the director of Save Our Parsonages, this book is more than a history of English rectories and vicarages, as it looks at a multitude of issues concerned with selling-off, rural retreat, and the future of the countryside community – indeed, the future of England itself (the foreword is by Clive Aslett (of Country Life), a distinguished advocate of building conservation); thus, chapters are headed ‘The Present’, ‘The Legacy’, ‘The Future’, etc. But it is also a history of clergy accommodation from earliest times to 1939. Appendices and indexes allow readers to search for detailed information by location (village names; the book can become a travelling companion), architects, and published accounts/evaluations. One extra advantage is the quality and frequency of the 68 photographs (and others in the text), almost half of which are in colour.

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Reviewer: John Thomas   (09/01/10)

Hardback
Price: £25.00
Publisher:Continuum
Published:28 October 2009
ISBN:978-0-826-42658-1


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