Dale, Johanna (Ed).
(2023)
St Peter-On-The-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex coast.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to uncover the pre-modern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. The impetus for this collection was the recently published designs for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell on Sea, which, if built, would have a significant impact on the chapel and its landscape setting. St Peter-on-the-Wall highlights the multiple ways in which the chapel and landscape are historically and archaeologically significant, while also drawing attention to the modern importance of Bradwell as a place of Christian worship, of sanctuary and of cultural production. In analysing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | St Peter-On-The-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex coast |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084353 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084353 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084353 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editor, 2023 Text © Contributors, 2023 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2023 licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Dale, J. (ed). 2023. St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex coast. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084353 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | archaeology, Britain, history, Essex, St Peter-on-the-Wall |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169550 |
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