The Old Rectory
The Story of the English Parsonage
2nd Edition
Published on 1. May 2018
386 pages
978-1-910519-53-0 (ISBN)
Description
"e;A humdinging page-turner of a book"e;The Spectator"e;This book will give great pleasure"e;Country LifeTraditional English rectories and vicarages have been neglected by the Church in the post-war years, but have become highly desirable to property buyers, and are now cherished by their new private owners. They combine many coveted qualities: their fine architecture, their air of civilisation, their charm and character, the traditional values and the essential "e;Englishness"e; they evoke, their large gardens and often splendidly rural locations.This book is about these fine houses, their place in English history and the history of the Church, their architecture, their architects, their contribution to our culture, and their sometimes eccentric occupants-both clerical and secular.This new edition has includes additional material and 68 plates (most of which are in full colour).
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Edition
second revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Durham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
16 Figures; 12 Plates, black and white; 56 Plates, color
File size
3,55 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910519-53-0 (9781910519530)
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2nd Edition
Sacristy Press
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Content
- 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
