Suffolk Church Chests. By David Sherlock. 245mm. Pp 112, 267 col and b&w ills, 24 line drawings, 3 maps. Ipswich: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 2007. ISBN 9780952139058. £15 (pbk).

摘要

This attractive, modestly priced and informativenhandbook is a worthy successor to such anti-nquarian classics as Roe’s Ancient Coffers andnCupboards. It is endowed with a forensicallynfocused text, honed, no doubt, through thenauthor’s long experience as a Romano-Britishnarchaeologist. Whether tourist, ecclesiologist ornchurchwarden, the user of this book will benefitnfrom the author’s insightful and sensitive per-nspective on his native county, one of the largest innEngland, and endowed with a collection of somen500 medieval churches, many renowned for thenquality of their structural woodwork and fittings.