The old rectory: The story of the English parsonage (2009)

Anthony Jennings
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RepositoryLibraryShelf
Somerset SANHS R4-8
Record Number
0826426581
Publication Details
Date
2009
Publisher
RCN
0826426581
Number of pages
336p
Height
24x17x4cm
Format
hbk.
Other Format
hbk/pbk from 300$e
Note
Preface-- Outline of book:--
(1) history and significance of Church and parsonage and 'The Great 20th century Sell-Off--
(2) architecture of the parsonage--
(3) cultural legacy of the parsonage--
(4) its future-- terminology-- acknowledgements--

Part I: Prologue--
1 The appeal of the Old Rectory--
2 The Great Twentieth Century Sell-Off--

Part II: History--
3 The parsonage in the parish--
4 The parsonage and the church institutions--

Part III: The architecture--
5 How the parsonage evolved--
6 Anatomy of a parsonage--
7 Gazetteer--
8 The best parsonages--
9 The architects--
10 The oddities--

Part IV: The present--
11 Church law and the parsonage--
12 The Great Sell-Off--

Part V: The legacy--
13 The house--
14 The people--

Part VI: The future--
15 The working parsonage--
16 The Old Rectory--

Epilogue--
17 The importance of the parsonage--
Appendices--
Terminology/Distribution by county/The Best/Best of the Rest/Bibliography--
Index.
Aspects
English
Subjects