Title English Victorian churches : architecture, faith & revival / James Stevens Curl ; with numerous photographs by Geoff Brandwood and others and a foreword by Barry Orford

Published London : John Hudson Publishing, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2023) Subject Church buildings -- England -- History -- 19th century Church architecture -- England -- History -- 19th century Architecture, Victorian -- England RELIGION / Christian Church / History. Architecture, Victorian Church architecture Church buildings England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781739822941 1739822943

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