Christopher Webster

Late-Georgian Churches (eBook, PDF)

Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840

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Produktbeschreibung

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality.

This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After centuries of post-Reformation inactivity, the Church of England began to address the desperate shortage of accommodation and build on a huge scale. Almost all the leading architects were involved and, amongst approximately 1500 new churches there are some outstanding designs; buildings of the very highest order architecturally.
In this pioneering study, the churches are considered free from the Ecclesiological zeal that condemned them and has, for so long, prevented their serious study. It will celebrate the best of them and provide valuable insights into the design and planning of the whole corpus. There will be many revelations.
Included is a thorough examination of the stylistic alternatives and contemporary liturgical imperatives, along with their architectural implications. And the book explores a lost world of late-Georgian churchgoing: what people expected and experienced in a church service. Also considered are some of the period's remarkable material and constructional innovations, ones often exploited in church-building, along with the provision of architectural services in the era that preceded full professionalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781739822910
• Artikelnr.: 64383517

Autorenporträt

Christopher Webster is an architectural historian who has published extensively on late-Georgian and early-Victorian subjects. Following a career in Higher Education, he is now a Research Associate at the University of York

Inhaltsangabe

1) Introduction 2) The Church in Danger 3) Ecclesiastical Architecture and the Question of Style 4) Church Designers and their World 5) Constructional and Decorative Innovation in Church
building 6) Designing for Worship: the practical issues 7) Planning Liturgical Spaces 8) Late
Georgian Worship 9) Seating the Congregation 10) Late Eighteenth Century Church
building: the final triumph of Classicism 11) Church
building 1800
1820 12) The Gothic Revival in West Yorkshire and Liverpool 1800
1820 13) Design Debates and Solutions, c1820: the Commissioners, the ICBS and publications 14) Church
building in the 1820s 15) Church
building in London c1790
1830: from Classical to Gothic 16) Church
building in South
East Lancashire c1790
1830: the role of the clergy 17) Church
building in the 1830s 18) A Brave New World? 19) Conclusions 20) Select bibliography 21) Select gazetteer 22) Index