Details
First Published: 17 May 2008
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843833697
Pages: 199
Size: 24.4 x 17.2
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Subject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 06 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What is Flushwork?
- 3 Flushwork Themes
- 4 Themes with Affinity to Flushwork
- 5 The Architectural Setting
- 6 Kindred Features
- 7 Flushwork Gazetteer
- 8 Appendix A: Buildings with Flushwork
- 9 Appendix B: Churches with Flushwork
- 10 Appendix C: Shallow-sunk stone head panels
- 11 Appendix D: Norwich style Flushwork on Church Tower Parapets
- 12 Bibliography
Flint Flushwork is a wholly external decorative medium, where the skills of medieval craftsman blended with the iconography of the medieval church to create a unique new art form. It is an artistic achievement that is built into the very fabric of many hundreds of medieval churches. As such, many examples of Flushwork survive where more impermanent artworks have succumbed to the ravages of reformation and over-zealous restoration. Despite this, however, it has not attracted the same depth of research and analysis as other aspects of church architecture.
This book provides a wide perspective on the several different modes of Flushwork that have been identified. By elucidating, and putting within their architectural and spiritual context, the various strands of the art, it aims to encourage a greater understanding and wider appreciation of this relatively uncharted branch of church art.
Reviews
Flint flushwork is one of the church features that many of us see but never really look at. No longer. In this beautifully illustrated book Stephen Hart shows us what we have been missing. [...] This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment of visiting churches. THE ROUND TOWER MAGAZINE
