Gabriel Byng is a research fellow in History at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the material culture of late medieval and early modern England.

• Introduction; 1. Financing construction I: the parish; 2. Financing construction II: gentry and clergy; 3. Organising construction I: the churchwardens; 4. Organising construction II: contracting committees and fabric wardens; 5. Organising construction III: aristocracy, clergy and institutions; 6. Approaches to building work.

'Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages is an engaging and significant study that sets church building - its administration and its financing - in later medieval England within the broader context of the changing economy and society of the period.' Phillipp R. Schofield, The American Historical Review

Gabriel Byng is a research fellow in History at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the material culture of late medieval and early modern England.

• Introduction; 1. Financing construction I: the parish; 2. Financing construction II: gentry and clergy; 3. Organising construction I: the churchwardens; 4. Organising construction II: contracting committees and fabric wardens; 5. Organising construction III: aristocracy, clergy and institutions; 6. Approaches to building work.

'Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages is an engaging and significant study that sets church building - its administration and its financing - in later medieval England within the broader context of the changing economy and society of the period.' Phillipp R. Schofield, The American Historical Review

Gabriel Byng is a research fellow in History at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the material culture of late medieval and early modern England.

• Introduction; 1. Financing construction I: the parish; 2. Financing construction II: gentry and clergy; 3. Organising construction I: the churchwardens; 4. Organising construction II: contracting committees and fabric wardens; 5. Organising construction III: aristocracy, clergy and institutions; 6. Approaches to building work.

'Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages is an engaging and significant study that sets church building - its administration and its financing - in later medieval England within the broader context of the changing economy and society of the period.' Phillipp R. Schofield, The American Historical Review