This is a new edition of John Leonard's popular London's Parish
Churches, first published in 1997. With over 200 new colour photographs
by the author, it provides both an historical account of churches in the
capital from Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the dawn of the twenty-first
century and also an invaluable guide to over 120 of the finest parish
churches. London contains a high proportion of the greatest
post-Reformation churches in the country and all the surviving medieval
and Wren churches in the City of London are here with plans of many by
Wren and Hawksmoor. The book concludes with a generous selection of the
best modern churches. John Leonard, a Londoner by birth, is a retired
consultant physician from Manchester who has written widely about parish
churches.