Canadian churches : an architectural history / Douglas Richardson and Peter Richardson ; photographs by John de Visser.

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Richardson, Douglas Scott, 1939-

Title & Author:

Canadian churches : an architectural history / Douglas Richardson and Peter Richardson ; photographs by John de Visser.

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Description:

438 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-421) and index.
Churches -- Atlantic. Terra Nova to Atlantic Canada ; British and American colonial traditions ; Festive simplicity ; New Brunswick town and country ; Deep and holy poetry ; Sublime Newfoundland ; Rational Gothic ; Cradle on the waves -- Québec. Counter-Reformation to Vatican II ; L'ancien régime ; Anglicanism triumphant ; Un métissage canadien ; Notre-Dame-de-Québec ; Les rivières qui marchent ; La ville aux cent clochers ; Québec modernism ; Pray and work ; Glass tapestries -- Ontario. Loyalists to modernists ; Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ; Unity of the empire ; Niagara and southwestern Ontario ; Spiritual fusion ; Fringe of settlement ; Victorian Catholicism ; Can these bones live? ; Victorian Toronto ; Church and city ; Byzantium in Ontario ; Group of Seven in church ; Resisting obsolescence -- West and North. Fur post to Pacific Rim ; Pre-Confederation Northwest ; Vancouver's Island and British Columbia ; Prairie settlement ; Bell towers of the Eastern Rite ; Late Victorian Gothic Revival ; The North ; Modernist stirrings ; Western modernism -- Changes. Origins ; Byzantine ; Medieval ; Reformation and Baroque ; The New World ; Conclusion.

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ISBN:

9781554072392
1554072395

Subject:

Church architecture Canada History.
Church buildings Canada History.
Church decoration and ornament Canada History.
Architecture religieuse Canada Histoire.
Églises Canada Histoire.
Églises Décoration et ornement Canada Histoire.
Architecture chrétienne Canada Histoire.
Church architecture.
Church buildings.
Church decoration and ornament.
Kyrkoarkitektur.
Kyrkor.
Canada.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

De Visser, John, 1930-
Richardson, Peter, 1935-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 259753
Call No.: BIB 190676
Status: Available

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