Christian Architecture: Irish Churches

"Dublin Churches" is for the general reader rather than for the specialist student of ecclesiastical architecture,and the text reflects this.It concentrates on the historical background to the churches,the circumstances of their building and heir social and literary connections over the years.

Brian de Breffny and George Mott have traveled the lenght and breadth of Ireland to provide this comprehensive and first-hand account of some three hundred surviving churches and abbeys.Their chronological narrative ranges from the simple single-celled churches of the Saints and Scholars,the early centres of worship of the autocratic Celtic Christian Church,through the magnificent flowering of Irish Romanesque and the lavish abbeys built by the Cistercians, the priories and Franciscan friaries up to the Reformation and the dissolution of the religious houses.