Webster Late-Georgian Churches

Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7398229-1-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 276 mm

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1) Introduction
2) The Church in Danger
3) Ecclesiastical Architecture and the Question of Style
4) Church Designers and their World
5) Constructional and Decorative Innovation in Church-building
6) Designing for Worship: the practical issues
7) Planning Liturgical Spaces
8) Late-Georgian Worship
9) Seating the Congregation
10) Late Eighteenth Century Church-building: the final triumph of Classicism
11) Church-building 1800-1820
12) The Gothic Revival in West Yorkshire and Liverpool 1800-1820
13) Design Debates and Solutions, c1820: the Commissioners, the ICBS and publications
14) Church-building in the 1820s
15) Church-building in London c1790-1830: from Classical to Gothic
16) Church-building in South-East Lancashire c1790-1830: the role of the clergy
17) Church-building in the 1830s
18) A Brave New World?
19) Conclusions
20) Select bibliography
21) Select gazetteer
22) Index

Über Autor(innen)

Webster Christopher:
Christopher Webster is an architectural historian who has published extensively on late-Georgian and early-Victorian subjects. Following a career in Higher Education, he is now a Research Associate at the University of York