Wales’s Best One Hundred Churches

T.J. Hughes

The churches of Wales are one of Britain’s great unheralded treasures, yet for many years there has been no book devoted to them and they await the kind of complete coverage given to churches elsewhere in Britain.  Astonishingly, this is the first opportunity for a book on the subject to show them at their best in colour as well as words. 

The archetypal Welsh church is not in town or village, enhanced by generations of patronage: it is the isolated, simple, evocative walls-with-roof, in a landscape often spiritually charged.  The Welsh churches tell us about medieval times, and the Age of Saints that came before and, amazingly of the pagan Celtic times before that, which they were meant to erase.

Illustrated in colour One Hundred Welsh Churches encompasses a millennium of  churches around Wales, from tiny St Govan’s tucked in its cliff-face, through ruined Llanthony to the magnificence of the cathedrals at Llandaff and St David’s. It is an invaluable repository of history, art and architecture, spirituality and people’s lives which will appeal to the historian and the tourist, communicants and those without a god.

TJ Hughes was born in north east Wales and has a long family association with the churches of that area. The Deputy Director of the International Bar Association he lives in London with his wife and son.

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More Publication details

ISBN : 978-1-85411-4273  Pages : 304

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Reviews

“This book is a gem, a worthy companion on expeditions to all parts of Wales”
Brynach Parri, Cambria, July 07

“It is a splendid guide, more than a dry architectural handbook in the Pevsner mould. With the help of well-chosen colour photographs, it is strong on the atmosphere of the churches and chapels of Wales, so often preserved by poverty and isolation, and now threatened with slow destruction by the same forces”.
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph, Saturday 10th March





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