
The Old Rectory
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- Intro
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Terminology
- Part One: Prologue
- The Appeal of the Old Rectory
- Notes
- The Great Twentieth-Century Sell-Off
- Notes
- Part Two: The History
- The Parsonage in the Parish-the Historical Background
- Saxons and Normans
- The medieval period
- The Tudors
- The Reformation
- Elizabethan
- Jacobean and Carolingian
- The Restoration and William and Mary
- Queen Anne
- Georgian
- Regency
- Victorian
- From the First World War to 1939
- Modern
- The Parsonage and the Church Institutions
- The monasteries
- The diocesan system and the parishes
- The rectory
- The vicarage
- The curate
- Glebe and tithe
- Patrons
- The freehold and the parsonage
- Part Three: The Architecture
- What Counts as a Parsonage?
- How the parsonage evolved
- Saxon
- Norman
- Early medieval
- Late medieval
- Tudor
- Elizabethan
- Jacobean
- Restoration
- William and Mary
- Queen Anne
- Georgian
- Regency
- Victorian
- Edwardian
- Interwar
- Modern
- The Church House
- The Clerk's House
- The Chantry
- Summary
- More About Parsonages
- Dating a parsonage
- Elevations
- Parsonage spotting
- The setting
- Adjacent buildings
- Part of a group
- The parsonage as parish history
- Polite or vernacular?
- Local materials
- London and urban parsonages
- Evaluating quality
- Categorising parsonages
- Parsonage Numbers by Period and Style
- Parsonage Numbers by County
- Parsonage Periods and Styles-Distribution by County
- Features, gardens, and associations
- Parsonages Through the Ages
- Perambulations
- Central London
- Westminster
- Belgravia and Pimlico
- Mayfair
- Marylebone
- Soho
- Holborn
- City of London
- Some working parsonages
- The Finest Parsonages
- Bad parsonages
- The Architects
- The Curiosities
- Hermitages and follies
- Churches and porches
- Parsonage towers
- The church house
- Not quite parsonages, but . . .
- Vicars' private houses
- Fragments
- Not purpose-built
- Not what it seems
- Something old, something new
- Other curiosities
- Ghosts
- Gone, drowned, never built
- Part Four: The Present
- Church Law and the Parsonage
- The law on parsonages
- Abolition of the freehold
- The direction of the Church
- The role of the clergy
- Policy towards churches contrasted
- Why the Great Sell-Off?
- The unofficial reasons
- The sceptics
- Part Five: The Legacy
- The House
- The ideal rectory
- Form and function
- The ideal parsonage
- The parsonage as a focus for learning
- The vicarage garden
- Parsonage garden plants
- The parsonage garden today
- Town and country
- The Church's mission
- Heritage, conservation, environment, community
- The parsonage in literature
- The wider influence of parsonage design
- The People
- The clergy and their parsonages
- The clergy as architects
- The naturalist clergy
- The gardening vicar
- Artists and scientists
- The warrior clergy
- The political reformers
- The sportsmen
- The drunk and the incontinent
- The eccentrics and the offenders
- Famous children of clergy
- Parsonages and the famous
- Parsonage associations and visits
- Part Six: The Future
- The Working Parsonage
- Parsonage trusts
- The Old Rectory
- Private use
- Commercial uses
- Serving the parish
- Conclusion
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix A: Definitions
- Appendix B: The Buildings Of England-The 20 Best Counties
- Appendix C: The 84 "Best Parsonages"
- Appendix D: The Buildings Of England's 73 "Best"
- Appendix E: Research Methodology
- Bibliography
- Church history and law
- Clergy and clergy history
- Parsonages
- Architecture
- Specific architects
- General
- Religion
- Periodicals, magazines, handbooks, and papers
- Academic thesis (unpublished)
- Photograph and Illustration Acknowledgements
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