The Lion Companion to Church Architecture

For centuries, churches have been a key part of the landscape of the world. In this lavishly-illustrated book, David Stancliffe takes us back to the earliest churches, showing how they were conceived as spaces for worship. We see their historical development from the early Roman house churches, through Byzantine and Romanesque and on to Gothic. With the Reformation came significant change in the religious landscape; Stancliffe describes these changes and explores the journey to the modern understanding of church architecture.

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For centuries, churches have been a key part of the landscape of the world. In this lavishly-illustrated book, David Stancliffe takes us back to the earliest churches, showing how they were conceived as spaces for worship. We see their historical development from the early Roman house churches, through Byzantine and Romanesque and on to Gothic. With the Reformation came significant change in the religious landscape; Stancliffe describes these changes and explores the journey to the modern understanding of church architecture.