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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
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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, W.D. Caröe, Robert Lorimer; Charles Ponting;, 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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
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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
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'beautifully illustrated' - Ayla Lepine, Church Times
