Title & Author:

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.

Description:

xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

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

Subject:

S. 30 f.
Kirchenbau
Kerkgebouwen.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
Church architecture Great Britain.
Architecture 19th century Great Britain
Architecture and society Great Britain.
Great Britain Church history 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire religieuse 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Churches History

Form/genre:

Church history.

Added entries:

Brooks, Chris.
Saint, Andrew.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116056
Call No.: ID NA4824.V49; ID:95-B1059
Status: Available