Church Going : A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

by Ziminski, Andrew | United Kingdom, Great Britain
Published 02/10/2025 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 416 pages, 100 integrated b/w illustrations
197 x 129 x 28mm | 336g

A BLACKWELL'S Non-Fiction Book of the Month 'Joyous and illuminating' Sir Tony RobinsonA Book of the Year in The Times, Telegraph, Church Times and BBC History MagazineChurches are many things to us - they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history.

Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.