📚 Church Architecture

Books with church architecture on their catalogue record, first published between 1736 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject church architecture in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 16,097 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The parish churches of England	J. Charles Cox	1930	29
	The cathedrals of England	Harry Batsford	1934	22
	Illustrations of the spires and towers of the mediaeval churches of England	Charles Wickes	1853	21
	De danske kirker	Erik Horskjaer	1966	21
	French cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys, and sacred sites of France	Elizabeth Robins Pennell	1909	18
	Architectural principles in the age of humanism	Rudolf Wittkower	1949	18
	French Cathedrals	Martin Hürlimann	1951	18
	English romanesque architecture	Alfred Clapham	1930	16
	Cathedral	David Macaulay	1973	16
	London churches ancient & modern	Bumpus, T. Francis	1883	15
	The cathedrals of northern France	Bumpus, T. Francis	1900	13
	Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain	George Edmund Street	1865	12
	Deutsche Dome des Mittelalters	Wilhelm Pinder	1910	11
	Art & religion	Von Ogden Vogt	1921	11
	The Genius in the Design	Jake Morrissey	2005	11
	The principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture	Matthew Holbeche Bloxam	1843	10
	Parish churches	Raphael Brandon	1848	10
	Church building	Ralph Adams Cram	1901	10
	Gothic architecture in England	Francis Bond	1905	10
	A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester	William Thomas	1736	9
	Corpus basilicarum Christianarum Romae	Richard Krautheimer	1937	9
	The greater English church of the middle ages	Harry Batsford	1940	9
	The old and new churches of London	Alfred Capes	1880	8
	Handbook of English cathedrals	Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer	1893	8
	A architectura religiosa na edade-média	Augusto Fuschini	1904	8
	The old churches of London	Gerald Cobb	1941	8
	Early Christian and Byzantine architecture	Richard Krautheimer	1965	8
	Universe of Stone	Philip Ball	2008	8
	Twenty-two of the churches of Essex architecturally described and illustrated	George Buckler	1856	7
	Églises gothiques en France	Marc Thibout	1900	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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