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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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Additional Authors
  • Brooks, Chris.
  • Saint, Andrew.
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
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1790-1900
  • Kirchenbau
  • Kerkgebouwen
  • Victoriaanse tijd
  • Great Britain > Church history > 19th century
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
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