C. B. Newham lives in Yorkshire, England. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, an information technology consultant, author of the popular Keyholder app and Director of the Parish Church Photographic Survey. So far, he has visited more than eight thousand sites on his quest to create a complete photographic record of England's rural parish churches.
A magnificent book - a tremendous achievement, a thing of beauty
and a volume that should have a place on every church lover's
shelves
*Literary Review*
Astonishing and beautifully photographed... The 365 examples chosen
for full-page illustration and commentary here are the clotted
cream of the milk of human mortality. Newham has visited 9,000
country churches in the past few years for his stupendous project
of photographing every rural church in England. His travels with a
camera make Cobbett's Rural Rides seem like a bank-holiday jaunt...
Newham's pictures are a revelation
*Telegraph*
This is a true labour of love and one of the most wonderful books I
have ever seen
*Daily Mail*
A tour de force... Erudite... Church monuments may at first appear
niche, but the subject matter deserves an audience beyond church
crawlers or taphophiles. Funeral art provides a powerful insight
into the culture and beliefs that they sprang from... Country
Church Monuments is a treasure trove of sites just waiting to be
discovered.
*The Times*
Brilliant
*Observer*
A life-affirming survey
*House and Garden*
An excellent book... Its outstanding quality, however, is its
photographs. Only someone who has craned their
neck in semi-darkness to discern the contours of an effigy lying at
eye level can appreciate, even if they cannot explain, the
expertise of Cameron Newham's technique. In many cases perfect
images are provided of recumbent figures taken from directly
overhead, often defying the actual space above them.... A wonderful
selection, warmly recommended
*The Tablet*
The wonderful result of 25 years of meticulously chronicling over
8,000 rural English and Welsh churches - and the effigies, marbles,
monuments and brasses inside them. Newham has picked out 365 of the
best monuments he has found - a feast of the celebrated and the
obscure and an enthralling map of our aesthetic and social
history
*The Oldie*
What fortunate isles are these, to boast thousands of local
sculpture galleries scattered through towns and villages, nearly
all accessible for free: churches that host funeral monuments and
memorials spanning more than a millennium. Newham's book is an
incomparable means of sampling the very best across England and
Wales - a personalised visit for every day of the year, in superb
photography and informed commentary
*Diarmaid MacCulloch*
This beautifully produced gazetteer invites us to look inside our
extraordinary wealth of parish churches and see afresh the
impressive, the touching, the beautiful and the downright sinister
in their monuments, from the fourteenth-century obsession with
mortality and the cadaver or the flourishes of baroque new men to
the vainglorious fanfares or sentimental doggerel of the nineteenth
century. Knights lying with their faithful dogs or wives, busts
coolly neoclassical or lavishly periwigged are all accommodated in
miniature showhouses in the architectural style of their period. A
happy bedfellow for Nicholas Pevsner
*Matthew Rice*
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