A valuable book which which rescues an important element of our medieval churches from scholarly neglect and greatly adds to our understanding. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY * This book on church porches is a welcome addition to the topic of liminal spaces in the Middle Ages. [ ...] Readers approaching this book with a pre-existing interest in the English parish church will greatly profit from Lunnon's multifaceted study of a neglected aspect of these buildings, which should now become an integral addition to the discussion of the parish church as a spatial, material, and social phenomenon. -- SPECULUM [ A] thought-provoking study * THE RICARDIAN * [ The] first monograph of its kind in over a century, and is likely to become, and remain, the authoritative text on the topic. * HISTORY * [ This] is a significant and substantial study with wide implications for English medieval religion * THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * As someone who has spent most of the last decade and more visiting and studying East Anglian churches, often in minute detail, I can only state that this work is an inspiration to do just that. It is a rarity when a volume appears that allows you to see a subject that you thought you were largely familiar with, through totally fresh eyes. -- Matthew J. Champion * Norfolk Archaeology * East Anglian Church Porches and their Medieval Context is a very welcome addition to the subject, as church porches were previously under-researched and little understood as an integral part of church design. The documentary research, the analysis and the recording of 119 extant examples are very impressive. -- Local Historian
