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The eighteenth-century church in Britain / Terry Friedman.
Main entry:

Friedman, Terry.

Title & Author:

The eighteenth-century church in Britain / Terry Friedman.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2011.

Description:

xv, 790 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

Series:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Notes:
"Glossary": p. [739]-745.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Churchscapes -- The architecture of religion -- Accommodating the congregation -- The vicar's life -- Fund-raising and other public affairs -- From the cradle to the grave -- Through the west door -- The battle between decoration and adoration -- The 'fate of sublunary things' -- Architects and builders -- On building and maintenance -- 'Rabies gothorum' -- The beginnings of eighteenth-century Gothic -- Gothic in transition -- A new spirit of 'truest Gothic taste' -- 'Ancient Gothic in all its richest ornaments' -- The 'bastard breed' -- Romanesque interlude -- 'Behold! Augusta's glitt'ring ... temples rise' -- Early Christianity revived -- The rise of temple-form churches -- Baroque beyond London -- The persistence of Wrenian and Gibbsian patterns -- Palladian prototypes -- The Palladian church comes of age -- The first Neoclassical churches -- 'Rules & standarts of the moderns': churches of the 1760s and 1770s -- Greenwich Hospital Chapel -- The final decades, 1780-1800 -- Beyond Britain -- Appendices: A. 'Some observations made in a journey ... 1742' -- B. Total construction costs of selected new-built churches.
CD-ROM in pocket on page 3 of cover contains chronological histories of 272 British places of worship.
Dust jacket.
Summary:

This illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during the period, Dissenting and Catholic chapels and mausoleums.

ISBN:

9780300159080 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300159080 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Church architecture Great Britain History 18th century.
Christianity and culture Great Britain History 18th century.
Architecture chrétienne Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Christianisme et civilisation Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Christianity and culture.
Church architecture.
Great Britain Church history 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire religieuse 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
Churches Great Britain 1700-1800.

Form/genre:

Compact discs.
Optical disks.
CD-ROMs.
Church history.
History.

Added entries:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

18th century church in Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272572
Call No.: BIB 205967
Status: Available

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