Roof Angels of the East Anglian Churches

a Visitor's Handbook and Guide

by Dana Bentley-Cranch and Rosalind K Marshall

designed and edited for the World Wide Web by Edward Mayer

All Saints, Necton, Norfolk

St Mary, Buckden, Cambridgeshire

All Saints, Tilney, Norfolk

This guide tells you about these fascinating religious carvings, found in the great churches of East Anglia, in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

No visit to East Anglia is complete without visiting the magnificent medieval churches that enhance the landscape and enrich the soul. Within them you will find a direct link to Byzantium and the distant origins of our faith, the carved Angels that grace the great roofs of these places of worship. We tell you how the Angels were made, what they may have meant to the Medieval Christian, how they escaped institutional attempts to destroy them, and where you can see them now. We show many of them, as they are today, in our photographs.

• You may download a personal copy of the complete illustrated text free of charge.
• Please make a donation to those Angel Churches that you visit, so that future generations may enjoy them too.

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Click on this Angel  to receive the Text - file size 196KB

Click on this Angel   to receive the Photographs - file size 928KB

Click on this Angel   to receive the Drawings - file size 51.2KB

Click on this Angel  to see our Links page for lots more information about historic churches

 

Holy Trinity, Blythborough, Suffolk

St Mary, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire

St Peter, Ringland, Norfolk

The content of
"Roof Angels of the East Anglian Churches"
is  ©  D Bentley-Cranch & R K Marshall 2005
unless otherwise credited.
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