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Secrets of King's College Chapel Nigel Pennick

Secrets of King's College Chapel By Nigel Pennick

Secrets of King's College Chapel by Nigel Pennick


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A historic overview of King's College Chapel and a summary of its construction.

Secrets of King's College Chapel Summary

Secrets of King's College Chapel by Nigel Pennick

A historic overview of King's College Chapel and a summary of its construction.

King's College Chapel was founded in 1446 by the mystically-inclined King Henry VI, known in his time as the royal saint. The king gave his builders complete instructions for a magnificent chapel of cathedral dimensions, every part of which had a mystical and spiritual meaning. This final flowering of the Great Work' was designed from the principles of sacred geometry, laid out and orientated by the ancient geomantic practice of the operative masons who built it. Today, it is the iconic image of the City of Cambridge.

This book summarises its construction, notable for its stunningly beautiful fan-vaulting and exceptional stained glass which still exists in its entirety. Although the chapel's original significance as a symbolic structure has been eroded over the centuries, it remains a place of wonder and reverence for countless thousands of visitors and those who watch on television the annual Christmas carol festival broadcast from there every year.

About Nigel Pennick

Nigel Campbell Pennick (born 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is a marine biologist, who has also published on occultism, magic, natural magic, divination, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and Celtic art as well as runosophy.

He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomancer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape and spiritual traditions. He has written several booklets on the history of urban transport in Cambridge and London. He is best known for his research on geomancy, labyrinths, sacred geometry, the spiritual arts and crafts, esoteric alphabets and Germanic runic studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Location, Nature and Accessibility of Cambridge

2. King Henry VI's Foundation

3. Building the Chapel

4. Finishing the Chapel

5. The Almost-Sainted King and Glazing the Chapel

6. Internal Fittings, the Chantries and Alterations

7. The Altered Surroundings

8. Location and Orientation

9. Name and Number

Afterword

Glossary

Bibliography

Additional information

GOR013382368
9781904658580
190465858X
Secrets of King's College Chapel by Nigel Pennick
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Aeon Books Ltd
20121231
152
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