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Arts & Crafts Churches Alec Hamilton

Arts & Crafts Churches By Alec Hamilton

Arts & Crafts Churches by Alec Hamilton


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Arts & Crafts Churches provides a definitive guide to 735 of the finest Arts & Crafts churches in Britain, including detailed descriptions of 175

Arts & Crafts Churches Summary

Arts & Crafts Churches by Alec Hamilton

This comprehensive overview provides the first detailed account of the phenomenon of the Arts & Crafts church, examining 150 of the finest examples, mostly built between 1884 and 1918 in England, Scotland, and Wales. Arts & Crafts studies tend to focus on houses and furniture; churches were no longer central to architects' practice. A handful of well-known churches have been written about extensively, but these famous examples obscure the existence of scores of churches that express Arts & Crafts ideas every bit as vividly. They also are rarely set alongside each other, nor seen within the wider context of not only how they were built, but why. These churches are visually arresting, with often quaint, far-fetched, or capricious exteriors. Internally, they often contain beautiful elements, including reredoses, pulpits, stained glass, and altars. They also tell a fascinating story about religion as Britain entered the age of modernity. While the architects were often religiously skeptical, they were still committed to making beauty. Author Alec Hamilton sets out the social and political context in which these churches were designed and constructed in the introductory section. The book is then divided into regional sections. Each section is headed by a short essay highlighting key architects and descriptions of notable churches within each region.

Arts & Crafts Churches Reviews

'So pleasantly written, and so comprehensively and beautifully illustrated, that it will surely attract many new enthusiasts.' - The Victorian Web
'A beautifully written and designed gazetteer, illustrated in colour throughout with the author's own excellent photographs, it provides detailed information, lively anecdotes and firm opinions in equal measure.' - Spectator, 'Books of the Year'

'This book is a truly major contribution to the study of Victorian and Edwardian church architecture and a wonderful travelling companion.' - Ken Powell, The Victorian magazine


'beautifully illustrated' - Ayla Lepine, Church Times


'an excellent introduction' - Pre-Raphaelite Review


About Alec Hamilton

Alec Hamilton completed his DPhil, 'The Arts & Crafts in church-building in Britain 1884-1918' at Oxford in 2017. He has lectured widely on the subject of the Arts & Crafts, and the churches in particular. Before becoming an architectural historian, he took a fine art degree, and before that, he worked in advertising and as a management trainer. He has been a Trustee of the Landmark Trust and of Friends of Friendless Churches.

Table of Contents

What is an Arts & Crafts church? Architecture as Art. Religion in an age of irreligion. The cultural context. Regional Sections: The West Country; The South; The South East; London (and Middlesex); Home Counties; The Marches; The West Midlands; The East Midlands; The East of England; The North West; Yorkshire; North of England; Wales; Scotland. Key figures include J.D. and E.H. Sedding, Norman Shaw, E.S. Prior, W.R. Lethaby, Robert Weir Schultz, Sidney Barnsley, Henry Wilson, W.D. Caroee, Robert Lorimer. Local Heroes: Edgar Wood, Charles Ponting, Percy Currey, W.J. Hale, Herbert Luck North, W.G. Rowan, John Douglas, Richard Bassnett Preston. Artistic innovators: Heywood Sumner, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Sarah Losh, Mary Seton Watts, the Pinwills, the Ropes, the Bromsgrove Guild. Also sections on: Birmingham and Byzantium; Arts & Crafts Oxford; the Quakers; Unitarians on Merseyside; the self-built, the hand-made and local grown. Appendices

Additional information

NGR9781848223219
9781848223219
1848223218
Arts & Crafts Churches by Alec Hamilton
New
Hardback
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
2020-09-24
352
Winner of SAHGB's Colvin Prize 2021 (UK) Winner of Art+Christianity Book Award 2021 (UK)
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