The eighteenth-century church in Britain

Friedman, Terry

Verlag: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011

Beschreibung

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Physical description: xv, 790 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. CD-ROM, containing a 799 page PDF with extracts of documents. 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. Subjects: Church of England Churches Architecture and building, 1700-1799; Church architecture Great Britain History 18th century; Christianity and culture Great Britain History 18th century; Christianity and culture; Church buildings Great Britain History 18th century; Christianity History 18th century; Architecture and Planning; Churches Great Britain 1700-1800. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 389533

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The eighteenth-century church in Britain

Verlag: New Haven : Yale University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st edition.