The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture 3 Volume Set
With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms
Published on 2. April 2015
Book
1102 pages
978-1-108-08273-0 (ISBN)
Description
The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work was published at the urging of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a 'companion' volume on church vestments. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805-88), a solicitor by profession, was an enthusiastic architectural historian with a passion for churches. In the preface, as well as explaining his reasons for another edition, Bloxam records his concern that some features he had recorded fifty years earlier no longer exist: 'In the so-called restorations of ancient churches, not a few historical features ... have been ruthlessly, and in many cases needlessly, swept away.' Volume 1 surveys the rise and decline of English Gothic architecture; Volume 2 discusses the internal layout of churches before the Reformation, and the monastic tradition; and Volume 3 discusses vestments, post-Reformation changes to church interiors, and funerary monuments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 69 mm
Weight
1400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-08273-0 (9781108082730)
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Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
Companion to the Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture
Being a Brief Account of the Vestments in Use in the Church, Prior to, and the Changes Therein in and from, the Reign of Edward VI
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04/2015
Cambridge University Press
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Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture
With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms
Book
04/2015
Cambridge University Press
€49.00
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Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture
With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms
Book
04/2015
Cambridge University Press
€51.70
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Volume 1: Preface; Introduction; 1. Definition of Gothic architecture; 2. Of the different kinds of arches; 3. Of the Anglo-Saxon style; 4. Of the Anglo-Norman style; 5. Of the semi-Norman style; 6. Of the Early English style; 7. Of the Decorated English style; 8. Of the Florid or Perpendicular English style; 9. Of the Debased English style; Explanation of technical terms; Centenary of ancient terms; Index of cathedrals and churches; Index, chiefly to notes. Volume 2: 1. On the internal arrangements of churches previous to the reformation; 2. Of monastic arrangements. Volume 3: 1. Of the vestments in use in the church up to the reign of King Edward VI; 2. Of the changes in the internal arrangements of churches in and subsequent to the reign of King Edward VI; 3. Of the vestments prescribed by the church in and from the reign of King Edward VI; 4. Of ancient British, Roman, and post-Roman hypaethral sepulchral monuments, and Anglo-Saxon and medieval churchyard sepulchral monuments.