Christopher Dalton, who died in February 2008 at the age of sixty-six from multiple myeloma, was one of the greatest post-war photographers of historic buildings, a lover of churches and writer. He was born at Leigh, Surrey, into a family where a passion for churches seemed predestined given the blood tie with the great ecclesiologist and hymn writer, John Mason Neale. After school at Bryanston, which gave him personal friendships as well as a profound love of Dorset, his initial professional training was as an architect, centred on three years at Leicester School of Architecture. There was an overlapping apprenticeship with Victor Heal and Partners in London and the Lincolnshire practice of Bond and Read from 1958 until 1964. The latter, a small-scale provincial studio specialising in churches, both new and old, was much more to his taste than the blander corporate setting of the commercial office.
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机译：克里斯托弗·道尔顿（Christopher Dalton）于2008年2月去世，享年66岁，死于多发性骨髓瘤。他是战后最伟大的历史建筑摄影师之一，也是教堂和作家的挚爱。他出生于萨里郡的利，出生在一个家庭中，鉴于与伟大的教会学家和赞美诗作者约翰·梅森·尼尔（John Mason Neale）的血缘关系，似乎对教堂充满了热情。在布莱恩斯顿（Bryanston）上学后，这给了他个人友谊和对多塞特（Dorset）的深厚爱意，他最初的职业培训是作为建筑师，在莱斯特建筑学院（Leicester School of Architecture）工作了三年。从1958年到1964年，伦敦的Victor Heal and Partners和林肯郡的邦德与雷德（Read and Bond）从事学徒工作，这是一个重叠的学徒制。后者是一家小型的省级工作室，专门研究新老教堂，对他而言，他的品味远胜于商业办公室的公司设置。
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