The Lion Companion to Church Architecture

Lion books are generally on the margins of reference publishing, having an education focus in a Christian context, but the quality and reliability of their richly illustrated and clearly written books has never been in doubt. It is with pleasure, therefore, that we welcome this densely illustrated and high quality account of church architecture to our shelves.

For millennia, churches have been a key element in the landscape of the Western world: the Agia Sophia in Istanbul with its enormous dome, Notre Dame in Paris with its flying buttresses and Gothic arches, St Peter's in Rome with its huge piazza,...