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Item Number: 116442
Title: Episodes in the Gothic Revival : Six Church Architects
Author: Webster, Christopher (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904965343
Description: Reading: Spire Books, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 240pp. illus. Summary: Arguably, the most significant stylistic development in the nineteenth century was the Gothic Revival; it ended Classicism’s long domination of English architecture and laid the foundations for a range of pioneering movements later in the century. The impetus for the revival can be traced to a number of diverse influences, but its physical manifestations were the products of a series of outstanding visionary architects, each of whom added his own particular contribution to the movement. The book identifies six of these individuals whose careers span the late-Georgian and Victorian periods and who made exceptional contributions to the foundations, development or refinement of the style. They are: John Carter, Thomas Rickman, Thomas Taylor, R.C. Carpenter, G.E. Street, J.T. Micklethwaite. An introduction is followed by a substantial, illustrated chapter on each of these men which examines their lives, training, philosophy and buildings as a means of establishing their role in the revival. Their significance has long been recognised, but all await a comprehensive monograph. (Spire Studies in Architectural History, 1)
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