The eighteenth-century church in Britain /

The eighteenth-century church in Britain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Terry
Format: Software Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Church architecture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Christianity and culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Church history > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Churchscapes
  • The architecture of religion
  • Accommodating the congregation
  • The vicar's life
  • Fund-raising and other public affairs
  • From the cradle to the grave
  • Through the west door
  • The battle between decoration and adoration
  • The 'fate of sublunary things'
  • Architects and builders
  • On building and maintenance
  • 'Rabies gothorum'
  • The beginnings of eighteenth-century Gothic
  • Gothic in transition
  • A new spirit of 'truest Gothic taste'
  • 'Ancient Gothic in all its richest ornaments'
  • The 'bastard breed'
  • Romanesque interlude
  • 'Behold! Augusta's glitt'ring...temples rise'
  • Early Christianity revived
  • The rise of temple-form churches
  • Baroque beyond London
  • The persistence of Wrenian and Gibbsian patterns
  • Palladian prototypes
  • The Palladian church comes of age
  • The first Neoclassical churches
  • 'Rules & standarts of the moderns': churches of the 1760s and 1770s
  • Greenwich Hospital Chapel
  • The final decades, 1780-1800
  • Beyond Britain
  • Appendices: A. 'Some observations made in a journey...1742'
  • B. Total construction costs of selected new-built churches.

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