Congratulations to Andrew Ziminski as ‘The Times’ chooses ‘Church Going’ as one of their top 10 Art Books of the year. Andrew has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator and this is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles.
Designing the text of ‘Church Going’ for Andrew and Profile Books was also one of the highlights of my year. It’s full of fascinating histories, features and furnishings.
The Times described it as: ‘a lively and loving anatomy of church architecture. For Ziminski, as for Philip Larkin, there is no such thing as just “another church: matting, seats and stone”. Every seat and stone has a story to tell. Ziminski tells them with aplomb, leading us through parish church graveyards, up spiral staircases and to the tops of spires and towers, uncovering what has been hidden, dragging you by the arm to notice everything from “transi” tombs with their dire carved skeletons to the bawdy sheela-na-gig who bare their bits.’
Designing the text of ‘Church Going’ for Andrew and Profile Books was also one of the highlights of my year. It’s full of fascinating histories, features and furnishings.
The Times described it as: ‘a lively and loving anatomy of church architecture. For Ziminski, as for Philip Larkin, there is no such thing as just “another church: matting, seats and stone”. Every seat and stone has a story to tell. Ziminski tells them with aplomb, leading us through parish church graveyards, up spiral staircases and to the tops of spires and towers, uncovering what has been hidden, dragging you by the arm to notice everything from “transi” tombs with their dire carved skeletons to the bawdy sheela-na-gig who bare their bits.’
