Main entry:

Webster, Christopher (Architectural historian)

Title & Author:

R.D. Chantrell (1793-1872) and the architecture of a lost generation / Christopher Webster.

Publication:

Reading : Spire Books, ©2010.

Description:

347 pages : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Catalogue": pages 224-316.
"Catalogue": p. 224-316.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.
Architecture in post-Waterloo England : a time of change -- Childhood, architectural education and the beginnings of a career -- Post-Waterloo Leeds -- Chantrell in Leeds -- Chantrell in London -- Chantrell's office and professional practice -- Chantrell the architect.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Chantrell was one of the outstanding church architects of the early nineteenth century, yet - along with many of his generation - he has been confined to the shadows of architectural history, shadows cast so adeptly by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists. This book reconsiders his many achievements and sets them within the context of the architectural theory and practice of his time.
After training in Soane's office and designing a string of compelling Classical buildings, Chantrell reinvented himself as a pioneering Gothic specialist to meet the huge post-Waterloo demand for additional church accommodation. He became one of the most accomplished exponents in this challenging area of practice, as well as being a respected antiquary, lecturer, writer and, later, an elder statesman of the profession on several prestigious London committees. Crowning his career is Leeds Parish Church (1837-41), the biggest church since Wren's St Paul's and, nationally, the most important church of the age. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9781904965220
1904965229

Subject:

Chantrell, R. D. (Robert Dennis), 1793-1872.
Chantrell, Robert Dennis 1793-1872
Chantrell, Robert Dennis, 1793-1872.
Chantrell, Robert Dennis.
Chantrell, R. Dennis, 1793-1872
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Church architecture Great Britain History 19th century.
Architecture Great Britain History 19th century.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Architecture chrétienne Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architects.
Architecture.
Church architecture.
Architektur.
Kirchenbau.
Architects England Biography.
Architecture England History 19th century.
Great Britain.
England.
English Architects.
Architecture (object genre) Great Britain England 1815-1850.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Chantrell, R. D. (Robert Dennis), 1793-1872.
Chantrell, R. Dennis, 1793-1872

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266767
Call No.: BIB 198763
Status: Available