Join star author and stonemason Andrew Ziminski, talking about their new book: Church Going. Enjoy a talk, Q&A, tour of local St Oswald’s Church in Oswestry, and book signing at Booka.
Church Going is an insightful and charming history of Britain’s churches – by an author who spends his life working in them.
Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. it is a celebration of British architectural history.
Andrew Ziminski is a stonemason and church conservator with decades of experience working on some of the greatest cathedrals and churches in Britain, including Salisbury Cathedral and St Paul’s in London. His first book was the critically acclaimed The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain.
Churches are many things to us – they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history.
Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.
Tickets: £5 (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a hardback copy of Church Going)