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The Victorian church : architecture and society
- Title
- The Victorian church : architecture and society / Chris Brooks & Andrew Saint, editors.
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St Martin's Press, ©1995.
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Text | Use in library | BR759 .V49 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 228 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0719040191
- 9780719040191
- 0719040205
- 9780719040207
- LCCN
- 94026465
- OCLC
- ocm30738877
- 30738877
- SCSB-2060574
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library