Gloucestershire church notes / edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and J. Melland Hall

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Glynne, Sir Stephen R. Gloucestershire church notes / edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and J. Melland Hall. London: Phillimore & Co., 1902. Hardback, VG. Green cloth, faded to front and spine; gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Tanning to endpapers. 186pp., occasional decoration. Contents clean and bright. Scarce. Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet (22 September 1807 17 June 1874) was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture. He was a brother-in-law of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. In the course of his life Glynne probably visited over 5500 churches (the precise figure is debated), making detailed notes on their architectural details and fittings: this amounted to over half the surviving medieval churches in England, and well over half in Wales.[16][17] He spent several months of each year on this activity, travelling by rail, horse-drawn transport, boat and on foot, and staying at hotels, inns and guest houses. His notes are greatly valued by architectural historians, as they frequently provide a brief but informed record of the buildings as they were before Victorian restorations and re-orderings. Glynne often revisited the churches on two or three occasions at several years remove, and so the notes also provide a record of changes over time. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1677534433237

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