By Toby Huitson
Spiral stairs, galleries and top chambers in medieval cathedrals, abbeys and parish church buildings were a permanent resource of fascination to students because the eighteenth century. yet what have been those mystery stairs, mysterious galleries and hidden top rooms really used for - and the way do we comprehend? This publication provides the facts for the sensible features of ecclesiastical higher areas from c. 1000-1550 as printed throughout the widest collection of medieval visible, documentary, and creative media ever assembled for the aim, taking in treasuries to dovecotes, libraries to lighting fixtures, and mystery video games of skittles over the vaults to the bold exploits of the twelfth-century 'Flying monk'. Toby Huitson considers those subject matters with many others, supplying a significantly new knowing of medieval high-level functionality. Dr Toby Huitson teaches on the collage of Kent, Canterbury
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Canon Brian Barnes (then vicar) and Mr Christopher Cooper kindly gave permission and practical assistance respectively with the experimental reconstruction of gallery lights at Hythe. Thanks are also expressed to the numerous other incumbents, churchwardens, keyholders and custodians for their practical assistance. The research which underlies this book was supported by many individuals and agencies. In addition to my late grandfather’s strong personal interest and encouragement, the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust gave me a much-appreciated small grant before the Arts and Humanities Research Council fully funded my research, to whom I record my grateful thanks.
The west front at Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. The Pulpitum screen of c. 1450 at Canterbury Cathedral. Spine: Spiral stair in the tower at Sts Mary & St Ethelburga, Lyminge, Kent. Back: Vaulting boss in All Saints’ chapel and stained glass in the north quire aisle triforium, Canterbury Cathedral (photos: author). Published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by OXBOW BOOKS 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW and in the United States by OXBOW BOOKS 908 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083 � Toby Huitson 2014 Paperback Edition: ISBN 978-1-84217-665-8 E-pub Edition: ISBN 978-1-84217-861-4; Mobi: ISBN 978-1-84217-862-1; PDF: ISBN 978-1-84217-863-8 A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Huitson, Toby.
Several of the examples (relating to both famous and less well-known buildings) naturally relate to areas of the country which are best-known to the author. The architecture of medieval Bedfordshire deserves to be better-known by a wider audience, and Kent is pivotal as the birthplace of the Gothic style in England. This is not to say that buildings in other parts of the country are less interesting or significant, and a wide spread of examples are mentioned from Cornwall to Scotland. Britain is also placed in its wider Continental context, including documentary, artistic, and archaeological material from medieval France, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and beyond.