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Subject(s)

• Great Britain—Church history—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• Brooks, Chris [Browse]
• Saint, Andrew [Browse]

Summary note

This is a reassessment of the phenomenon of church architecture in the 19th century. It presents a range of interpretations that approach Victorian churches as products of institutional needs, socio-cultural developments, and economic forces.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Anglican church-building in London, 1790-1890: from state subsidy to the free market / Andrew Saint
• Building the rural church: money, power and the country parish / Chris Brooks
• The Nonconformist traditions: chapels, change and continuity / Chris Wakeling
• The Victorian kirk: Presbyterian architecture in nineteenth-century Scotland / Gavin Stamp
• Church and chapel in Wales / Peter Howell
• Irish church-building: popery, Puginism and the protestant ascendancy / Jeanne Sheehy
• "Their interest and habit": professionalism and the restoration of medieval churches, 1837-77 / Chris Miele
• Patronage, the Anglican Church and the local architect in Victorian England / Martin Cherry
• Theology, worship and the late Victorian church.

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ISBN

• 0719040191
• 9780719040191
• 0719040205 ((pbk.))
• 9780719040207 ((pbk.))

LCCN

94026465

OCLC

30738877

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