This book consists of 13 chapters by various authors from a variety of backgrounds, such as lecturers, historians, buildings inspectors and architectural historians, all united by one thing, an interest in the centres of Christian worship in Britain. The result is a wide-ranging survey of the discipline, with contributions from outside but related fields of study. The contributions are divided into five sections; being 'The Early Church AD 400-1200', 'The Later Middle Ages', 'Post-Reformation Churches', 'Human Remains' and 'Legislation'. This division makes it easy to use the book, and supports its claim to offer 'Research Directions for the Future'.
Author(s): John Blair, Carol Pyrah (eds.)
Series: Council for British Archaeology. CBA Research Reports, 104
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: York
List of illustrations vii
List of tables ix
List of contributors ix
Summaries - English, French, Gaelic, German, Welsh x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction / Richard Morris xv
PART I. THE EARLY CHURCH AD 400-1200
1. The archaeology and architecture of English Christianity AD 400-1200 1
Church buildings: cultural location and meaning / Richard Gem 1
Churches in the early English landscape: social and cultural contexts / John Blair 6
2. The archaeology of the early Christian church in Scotland & Man AD 400-1200 19
The origins and development of Christianity in North Britain and Southern Pictland / Ian Smith 19
The west of Scotland / Ian Fisher 37
The church in Scotland in the later 11th and 12th centuries / Neil Cameron 42
The early church on the Isle of Man c 500-1200 / Lawrence Butler 46
3. Identifying the archaeology of the early church in Wales and Cornwall / Nancy Edwards 49
PART II. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
4. The late medieval English church: parish devotion in buildings and the landscape 63
Parish church building: the fabric / Andrew Brown 63
Interior and furnishings / Christine Peters 68
Religious practice on the margins / Gervase Rosser 75
5. Church archaeology in Scotland & Man AD 1200-1600 85
The archaeology of the Scottish church in the later Middle Ages / Richard Fawcett 85
The medieval church on the Isle of Man c. 1200-1600 / Lawrence Butler 102
6. 'A landscape white with churches': Wales AD 1200-1600 / Lawrence Butler 104
PART III. POST-REFORMATION CHURCHES
7. Continuity, reaction and revival: church archaeology in England c. 1600-1880 / Roberta Gilchrist & Richard Morris 112
8. The post-Reformation church in Scotland 127
The emergence of the reformed church in Scotland c. 1560- c 1700 / John G. Dunbar 127
Disruption, unification and the aftermath: the church in Scotland 1700-1990 / Simon Green 134
9. Reformation, restoration and revival: churches and chapels in Wales 1600-1900 / A. J. Parkinson 144
PART IV. HUMAN REMAINS
10. Archaeological study of church cemeteries: past, present and future 159
Past rites, future concerns / Elizabeth O'Brien 160
The biological evidence, or what the people say / Charlotte Roberts 166
PAR IV. LEGISLATION
11. Legislation and management in England and Wales / Carl Bianco 182
12. Church archaeology - the legal position in Scotland / Edwina Proudfoot 189
CONCLUSION
13. Church archaeology in retrospect and prospect / Warwick Rodwell 197
Bibliography 203
Legislation 219
Index Peter Rea 220
