Unlocking the Church - The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space

Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experience of church buildings and also helps make sense of what we should do with them now.

List of contents

• Preface


• Contents


• List of Illustrations


• Introduction


• 1: Seeing


• 2: Feeling


• 3: Visiting


• 4: Analysing


• 5: Revisiting


• Afterword: Seeing for Yourself


• Index

About the author

William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History and Vice President of St John's College, Oxford. His last book, Redbrick: a social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He serves as associate priest in the parish of Kidlington and writes regularly for the Church Times.

Summary

Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experience of church buildings and also helps make sense of what we should do with them now.

Product details

• Authors: William Whyte, William (Professor of Social and Architectu Whyte, Whyte William
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2020
• EAN: 9780198796169
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879616-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; European History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, ARCHITECTURE / History / Romanticism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, History of Architecture, Religious buildings, Church history, Architecture: religious buildings