Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 30290-h.htm or 30290-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30290/30290-h/30290-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30290/30290-h.zip) _The Homeland Handbooks_--No. 55. OUR HOMELAND CHURCHES AND HOW TO STUDY THEM. by SIDNEY HEATH (Author of "Some Dorset Manor Houses," etc.) Illustrated by the Author and Ethel M. Heath And by Photographs. Published under the General Editorship of Prescott Row and Arthur Henry Anderson, by the Homeland Association for the Encouragement of Touring in Great Britain. [Illustration: The Foundations of a Romano-British Church. Uncovered at Silchester. _Photograph S. Victor White & Co._] London: The Homeland Association Ltd., 22, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. First Edition. 1907. EDITORIAL NOTE. With a view to making future Editions of this Handbook as accurate and comprehensive as possible, suggestions for its improvement are cordially invited. If sent to THE EDITORS, The Homeland Association, Association House, 22, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., they will be gratefully acknowledged. COPYRIGHT. This Book as a whole, with its contents, both Literary and Pictorial, is Copyrighted in Great Britain. ADVERTISING. LOCAL.--Terms for Advertising in future issues of this Handbook will be forwarded on application to the General Manager of the Homeland Association, at the above address. GENERAL.--Contracts for the insertion of Advertisements through the whole series of Homeland Handbooks, more than fifty volumes, circulating through the country, can be arranged on application to the General Manager. _CONTENTS._ _Author's Preface_ 7 _Dedication_ 8 _Introduction_ 9 _I.--Early British Churches_ 19 _II.--Early Church Architecture_ 26 _III.--The Saxon and Norman Styles_ 31 _IV.--The Early English Style_ 47 _V.--The Decorated Style_ 57 _VI.--The Perpendicular Style_ 64 _VII.--The Renaissance and Later_ 74 _VIII.--Church Furniture and Ornaments_ 80 _IX.--Bells and Belfries_ 95 _X.--The Spire: Its Origin and Development_ 99 _XI.--Stained Glass_ 104 _XII.--Crypts_ 109 _XIII.--How to describe an Old Church_ 111 _Appendix--A Glossary of the Principal Terms used in Ecclesiastical Architecture_ 115 _Bibliography_ 123 _Index_ 124 _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS._ PLATES.