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English Victorian churches : architecture, faith & revival /

Victorian churches were often of high quality, reflecting in physical terms the intense theological debates of the time. This highly-illustrated book by a leading authority describes many of the finest examples.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curl, James Stevens, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : John Hudson Publishing, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1. An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches
  • Preliminary Remarks
  • The Established Church
  • Nonconformity
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Need for New Churches
  • The Fabric
  • 2. Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles
  • Introduction
  • The Residue of a National Architecture
  • 17th-Century Gothic
  • Goths in Gardens
  • Gothic and the Nation: The Beginnings of Gothic Scholarship
  • 3. The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s
  • Introduction
  • Evangelicals and High Churchmen
  • Threats to the Established Order
  • Counter-Attack, Liturgical Studies,Tractarianism, and the Newman Crisis
  • The Rise of Ecclesiology
  • The Anglican Response after 1833: A Church-Building Age
  • Afterword
  • 4. Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies
  • Introduction
  • Pugin's Contrasts and After
  • Ultramontanism
  • Some Roman Catholic Churches
  • Four Classical Exemplars
  • An Uneasy Stylistic Brew
  • The Contribution of John Francis Bentl
  • 5. The Anglican Revival
  • Introduction
  • The Revival of the Anglican Liturgy
  • The Impact of Ecclesiology
  • The Gothic Revival in the 1840s
  • The Rundbogenstil
  • Stylistic Oddities
  • Afterword
  • 6. The Search for an Ideal
  • The Anglican Crisis
  • All Saints' Church, Margaret Street
  • Other Churches by Butterfield
  • The French Connection
  • Some Works by George Edmund Street
  • Other Mid-Victorian Churches
  • George Gilbert Scott
  • 7. Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and Early 1870s
  • Ruskin
  • Some Definitions and Muscularity
  • 'Go', 'Roguery', and Reactions
  • William Burges
  • John Loughborough Pearson
  • The Liturgical Background
  • The Revival of English Late Gothic Styles
  • All Saints', Cambridge, and Bodley's Later Work
  • 8. The Late Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations
  • Introduction
  • Anglo-Catholicism and Controversy
  • The Arts and Crafts Influence
  • Further Remarks on Anglican Liturgiology
  • Some Other Churches
  • Epilogue
  • 9. Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance
  • Introduction
  • The Buildings
  • Afterword
  • 10. Epilogue
  • Church Restoration
  • Closing Remarks
  • Select Glossary
  • Select Bibliography