EVENSONG (WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON) (PB)

Last year fewer than two people in a hundred attended an Anglican church. Richard Morris has spent fifty years studying churches - their imagery, why they are where they are, how they were built, how they were used. In this book, alongside encounters with saints, medieval doors that still swing on their hinges, stories of secret passages, and sounds of a Tudor organ re-voiced from bits, people loom large: archbishops, parishioners, bell-ringers, musicians, gravediggers and beggars.