Our Bookstall
The church has had a bookstall for over 50 years. We believe it is important that regular worshippers and visitors can have the opportunity to browse and purchase books and other materials including:
• Books about the Christian faith and our churches
• Devotional materials to aid personal prayer and reflection
• Inspirational stories from Christians and people of faith
• Works that will help us to understand a Christian perspective on some of the important issues facing the world
The bookstall has been ably managed since its inception by Mr Charles Taplin and we are very excited to be taking over this important part of the church’s ministry.
If you have any ideas or suggestions, or the books shown below are no longer stocked on the stall, and you’d like a copy, please contact us on pickeringchurchbooks@gmail.com
Watch this space for news about new stock and events.
Mary and Jo
Diaries for 2023 are now available!
The wall paintings of Pickering Church are one of England's hidden artistic treasures, giving visitors and scholars alike a powerful experience of what it was like to step through the door of a late medieval painted church. In this stunningly illustrated book, Kate Giles tells the story of the discovery, restoration and conservation of these paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Their existence had been totally forgotten by the parish until they were revealed by the accidental collapse of some plaster in 1852, since when they have been understood in the context of shifting philosophies of conservation and art-historical interpretation. In 1852 the vicar disliked them. They were recorded by the artist Tom Chambers and surveyed by the architect William Hey Dykes, and then whitewashed over. In 1876 a new vicar, G.H. Lightfoot, decided to have the paintings exposed and restored, but with much over-painting, work beginning in 1882. A series of photographs in 1902 are also here published, together with paintings by E.W. Tristram in 1915 and Janet Lenton in 1952 which attempt to reconstruct their ideal original appearance, together with a full survey in modern digital photography of their current appearance after recent conservation. The book concludes with a discussion of the meanings of the paintings with a re-evaluation of their quality and depths of meaning, with a full bibliography, endnotes and index.
Kate Giles is a Senior Lecturer in historic buildings in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Co-Director of the University's Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture.
The book is printed in colour throughout, has 208 pages, and is properly sewn and bound in real cloth, with a colour dust-wrapper.
The retail price of the book is just £20
The publisher will send copies of the book post-free within the UK, full information and the order form is in the link below.
Their existence had been totally forgotten by the parish until they were revealed by the accidental collapse of some plaster in 1852, since when they have been understood in the context of shifting philosophies of conservation and art-historical interpretation. In 1852 the vicar disliked them. They were recorded by the artist Tom Chambers and surveyed by the architect William Hey Dykes, and then whitewashed over. In 1876 a new vicar, G.H. Lightfoot, decided to have the paintings exposed and restored, but with much over-painting, work beginning in 1882. A series of photographs in 1902 are also here published, together with paintings by E.W. Tristram in 1915 and Janet Lenton in 1952 which attempt to reconstruct their ideal original appearance, together with a full survey in modern digital photography of their current appearance after recent conservation. The book concludes with a discussion of the meanings of the paintings with a re-evaluation of their quality and depths of meaning, with a full bibliography, endnotes and index.
Kate Giles is a Senior Lecturer in historic buildings in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Co-Director of the University's Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture.
The book is printed in colour throughout, has 208 pages, and is properly sewn and bound in real cloth, with a colour dust-wrapper.
The retail price of the book is just £20
The publisher will send copies of the book post-free within the UK, full information and the order form is in the link below.
Printable order form for Kate Gile's book
| Book Order Form.pdf |
Why not come and browse our great range of new and second-hand books?
