Parsonages (Shire Library)-Kate Tiller

Name: Parsonages (Shire Library)-Kate Tiller
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ParsonagesAuthor(s): Kate Tiller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Shire Publications\nISBN-13: 9781784421373, 978-1784421373\nSynopsis\nThe parsonage has provided the central hub for local towns and villages for hundreds of years this is the story of their evolution, architecture and changing occupants.\n\nFrom the middle ages to the present day the houses of local clergy parsonages, vicarages and rectories have been among the most significant buildings in parishes throughout England. Architecturally some of the best and most fully documented domestic buildings, their history is that of the small and medium sized house, from medieval vernacular to the bespoke designs of leading Victorian architects and the more modest homes of todays clergy.\n\nThe lives lived in the parsonage, factual and fictional (from Austen to Trollope and the televised struggles of Rev in Londons East End in the 2010s) reveal not just a building, but a hub of.