Churches of Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a varied county, with a mixture of rural, urban and industrial areas ranging from borders with counties in the West Midlands to the Welsh Marches, Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. Worcester cathedral attracts many to the county but other church buildings in Worcestershire reveal origins dating back to Anglo-Saxon and even Roman times. The county is rich in Norman and Gothic churches, including the monasteries at Great and Little Malvern and Pershore and a cluster of rare wooden-framed medieval churches. Noteworthy churches continued to be built after the Reformation into the Georgian period and large numbers of churches were built or rebuilt in the Victorian period into the twentieth century to cater for the growing population, including non-conformist denominations. All these are among the selection of characteristic Worcestershire church buildings from across the county that are described and illustrated in this book. This fascinating picture of an important part of the history of Worcestershire over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.