St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-83765-163-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1100 g

Traces the history of a magnificent landmark in the history of late medieval art and architecture.

As the principal royal chapel in the medieval Palace of Westminster, St Stephen's was at the centre of worship for the Plantagenets, a major collegiate foundation of a new kind for the mid-fourteenth century, and a community of national significance in the development of sacred polyphony. During the Reformation, the Chapel was converted into a meeting place for the House of Commons, which it remained for 300 years, shaping the development of British political culture. Its influence continues to be felt today in the design of the Commons chamber. Following the disastrous Palace fire of 1834, the site of the upper chapel was rebuilt as St Stephen's Hall, a gallery of national history, leading to the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament.

This book tells the story of St Stephen's Chapel, from the thirteenth century to the present day. Sixteen chapters explain the building and its religious life, its political significance, and the antiquarian rediscovery of its former magnificence. Contributors highlight the interaction between visual and political culture; the contexts of kingship and international rivalry that informed the foundation and construction of chapel and college; the effect of medieval St Stephen's on the development of the House of Commons; the adaptation and re-use of St Mary Undercroft; and the creation of St Stephen's Hall in the 1840s. The hall would become a site of Suffragette activism in the campaign for Votes for Women, marked today by a monumental artwork New Dawn, which is the focus of the final chapter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayers, Tim

Cooper, J P D

Smith, Elizabeth Hallam

Shenton, Caroline

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ayers, Tim

Biggs, Elizabeth

Binski, Paul

Collins, Mark

Cooper, J.P.D.

Smith, Elizabeth Hallam

Harper, John

Hill, Rosemary

Hillson, James

Moore, Rebekah

Ormrod, W Mark

Seaward, Paul

Shenton, Caroline

Spooner, Jane

Tremellen, Murray

Williamson, Magnus

Unwin, Melanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: St Stephen's Chapel Westminster and its Legacies, 1292 to the Present

Tim Ayers, J. P. D. Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith, and Caroline Shenton

Part I St Stephen's Chapel and College in the Middle Ages

St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster: Presence and Absence

Tim Ayers

The Plantagenet Purpose: St Stephen's Chapel and English Kingship, 1272-1377

W. Mark Ormrod

St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster: From a King's to a Collegiate Chapel

John Harper

War, Politics, and Architecture: Iterative Design at St Stephen's Chapel, 1292-1348

James Hillson

St Stephen's College, 1348 to 1548

Elizabeth Biggs

The Imagery of St Stephen's Chapel: An Overview

Paul Binski

The Iconography of the St Stephen's Chapel Painting Fragments

Jane Spooner

Performing Spaces: The Art of Polyphony Within and Beyond St Stephen's

Magnus Williamson

Part II St Stephen's and the House of Commons

St Stephen's under the Tudors: From Royal Chapel to Commons Chamber

J. P. D. Cooper

The Wren Commons Chamber

Murray Tremellen

Architecture and Revolution at St Stephen's and Beyond

Paul Seaward

Antiquaries, Architects, and St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 1790-1837

Rosemary Hill

St Stephen's, Temporary Accommodation, and the New House of Commons

Rebekah Moore

'Going to St Stephen's': The Gothic Legacy of the Chapel in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries

Mark Collins

St Mary Undercroft, 1548-1870: 'a dull sort of ecclesiastical lumber-room'?

Elizabeth Hallam Smith

From Valhalla to New Dawn: Commemoration and Gender in the
Afterlife of St Stephen's

Caroline Shenton and Melanie Unwin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ormrod, W Mark
The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

Ayers, Tim
TIM AYERS is Professor of the History of Art at the University of York.

Ayers, Tim
TIM AYERS is Professor of the History of Art at the University of York.

Cooper, J.P.D.
J.P.D. COOPER is Professor in History at the University of York, UK.

Smith, Elizabeth Hallam
ELIZABETH HALLAM SMITH is an Honorary Research Professor at the University of York, UK.

Smith, Elizabeth Hallam
ELIZABETH HALLAM SMITH is an Honorary Research Professor at the University of York, UK.

Biggs, Elizabeth
Dr ELIZABETH BIGGS started work on St Stephen's College as part of the large research project "St Stephen's Chapel: Visual and Political Culture, 1292-1941" at the University of York. She has taught at York and the University of the West of England.

Shenton, Caroline
CAROLINE SHENTON was formerly Director of the Parliamentary Archives, UK.

Cooper, J P D
J.P.D. COOPER is Professor in History at the University of York, UK.

Shenton, Caroline
CAROLINE SHENTON was formerly Director of the Parliamentary Archives, UK.