The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels
By (author) Geoffrey Sedlezky
Paperback (Published)
(August 2023)
ISBN: 9781803275758
8.07 x 11.42 inches
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This book analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. The author proposes a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.
The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. Until the eleventh century, churches tended to have a single external western nave doorway. This design changed in the next two centuries. New churches tended to have north and south, laterally opposing, nave doorways. From the thirteenth century to the end of the Middle Ages, new churches continued the two-doorway trend but typically added western towers and doorways as well. The book also examines chapels, which differed from churches as they had a different function and status. Non-parochial chapels usually had a single southern doorway whilst parochial chapels often had two opposing nave doorways. This book proposes that liturgical reasons lay behind the changes both at the turn of the eleventh century and again in the later thirteenth. Gender and clerical segregation are considered in relation to the provision of a second nave doorway in churches and parochial chapels. It is also shown that the widespread idea of the ‘Devil’s Door’ was only developed in the nineteenth century though it had roots in late medieval liturgy. The author concludes that there is a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.
List of Figures
The Significance of Doorway Positions
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Doorway Positions in English Churches
Chapter 2: Eleventh and Twelfth-Century English Parochial Churches and Chapels
Chapter 3: Doorway Positions of Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth-Century
Chapter 4: Chapels
Chapter 5: Liturgy
Chapter 6: Gender and Segregation
Chapter 7: The Devil’s Door?
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index
- By (author) Geoffrey Sedlezky
‘The book is attractively presented and holds considerable value as a work that brings a fresh perspective to ecclesiological study.’ – Richard Fawcett (2024): Ecclesiology Today Volume 63
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