English Victorian Churches
Architecture, Faith, & Revival
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2022
240 pages
978-1-7398229-4-1 (ISBN)
Description
Victorian churches were often of high quality, reflecting in physical terms the intense theological debates of the time. This highly-illustrated book by a leading authority describes many of the finest examples.
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Curl James Stevens:
Professor James Stevens Curlhas an international reputation as an architectural historian whose publications span Classical, Georgian and Victorian architecture, and with Susan Wilson he wrote the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. His Making Dystopia; The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (OUP, 2018) is a combative critique of the Modernist movement and, while controversial, asks questions about our urban landscapes to which answers are long overdue.
Professor James Stevens Curlhas an international reputation as an architectural historian whose publications span Classical, Georgian and Victorian architecture, and with Susan Wilson he wrote the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. His Making Dystopia; The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (OUP, 2018) is a combative critique of the Modernist movement and, while controversial, asks questions about our urban landscapes to which answers are long overdue.
Content
Preface and acknowledgements
Foreword - Rev Barry A Orford
1 - An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches
2 - Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles
3 - The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s
4 - Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies
5 - The Anglican Revival
6 - The Search for an Ideal
7 - Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and early 1870s
8 - The Late-Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations
9 - Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance
10 - Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Foreword - Rev Barry A Orford
1 - An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches
2 - Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles
3 - The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s
4 - Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies
5 - The Anglican Revival
6 - The Search for an Ideal
7 - Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and early 1870s
8 - The Late-Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations
9 - Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance
10 - Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
