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Author Proctor, Robert, 1973- author.

Title Building the modern church : Roman Catholic Church architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975 / by Robert Proctor
Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Ashgate studies in architecture
Ashgate studies in architecture series.
Contents Tradition -- Modern Church Architecture -- Forms of Modernism -- Modern Church Art -- Architecture and the Liturgical Movement -- Liturgical Change -- Devotion -- Ritual and Community -- The Church and the World
Summary The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Church architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Catholic church buildings -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
Catholic church buildings
Church architecture
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781409449164
1409449165
1472406443
9781472406446
9781317170860
1317170865