Unlocking the church : the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space
Whyte, William (William Hadden)2017
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The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings is almost entirely down to the zeal of Victorians such as John Henry Newman, Samuel Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin, and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual life and well-being. In this book, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which buildings were understood and experienced.
Main title:
Unlocking the church : the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space / William Whyte.
Author:
Whyte, William (William Hadden), author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Collation:
xvi, 241 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780198796152 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
726.70941
Local class:
726.70941
Language:
English
BRN:
1880599
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