Downside Abbey : an architectural history / edited by Dom Aidan Bellenger.

Title & Author:

Downside Abbey : an architectural history / edited by Dom Aidan Bellenger.

Publication:

London : Merrell, 2011.

Description:

223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as ̀the most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in England', the Neo-Gothic church at Downside Abbey, Somerset, was built between the 1880s and the 1930s under the direction of some of the country's most renowned ecclesiastical architects. This elegant new book reviews the history and construction of this magnificent building, designed to rival the scale of England's great medicval Gothic cathedrals. Contributions by distinguished architectural historians including Gavin Stamp and Alan Powers explore, among other subjects, Thomas Garner's majestic choir, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's soaring nave and the exquisitely redesigned Lady chapel of Sir Ninian Comper, as well as the buildings of the attached monastery. Generously illustrated throughout with drawings, plans, archival photography and dramatic new images by Paul Barker, one of the UK's pre-eminent architectural photographers, Downside Abbey is a detailed and absorbing account of a remarkable place of worship --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9781858945422 (hbk.)
1858945429 (hbk.)

Subject:

Downside Abbey (Bath, England) History.
Downside Abbey (Bath, England)
Church architecture England Bath.
Architecture chrétienne Angleterre Bath.
Buildings.
Church architecture.
Abbeys England Bath
Bath (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England Bath.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bellenger, Dominic Aidan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 277738
Call No.: BIB 212736
Status: Available

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