Fashions in Church Furnishings, 1840-1940
Title | Fashions in Church Furnishings, 1840-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Frederick Anson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Church decoration and ornament |
ISBN |
Fashions in Church Furniture, 1840-1940. [With Plates.].
Title | Fashions in Church Furniture, 1840-1940. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Frederick ANSON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 1960 |
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High Fashion in the Church
Title | High Fashion in the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Johnstone |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000940209 |
This book focuses on second half of the twentieth century, for strange things have been happening in the church. It aim is to show something of the origins and use of the vestments themselves, and to traces the development of their decoration in the context of the arts.
The Living Church
Title | The Living Church PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | |
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English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, at the Period of the Reformation
Title | English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, at the Period of the Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Peacock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | Church buildings |
ISBN |
High Fashion in the Church
Title | High Fashion in the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Johnston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Unlocking the Church
Title | Unlocking the Church PDF eBook |
Author | William Whyte |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0192515926 |
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, Henry Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin, and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual life and well-being. In Unlocking the Church, 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. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions. These church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past, unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.