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Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781445611099
A short history of the 51 Wren-designed churches in the city of London.
Author : Paul Jeffery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015070765428
The Great Fire of 1666 devastated the centre of London, with a loss of old St Paul's and eighty-six parish churches. Sir Christopher Wren, working with Commissioners appointed by Parliament, was responsible for rebuilding the cathedral and fifty-one of the parish churches, although the immediate need to start rebuilding made his design for an overall replanning of the City impossible. The work was funded by a tax on coals brought into the City of London. Much has been written about Wren's rebuilding of St Paul's, while the other fifty-ne parish chirches he was appointed to reconstruct are generally overlooked. This is the first modern book to examine them as a whole. Paul Jeffery describes how and when the churches were built, exploring the respective contributions of Wren and of his two principal assistants, Robert Hooke and Nicholas Hawksmoor. The result of their work was a unique set of contemporary churches. While not all are of the standard of Wren's masterpieces, such as St Stephen Walbrook and St Bride's, none is without architectural merit and interest. The second part of the book is a gazetteer of all the churches, including those that no longer exist. The book is heavily illustrated and provides a visual strong record of all the churches. Since they were built the Wren churches have suffered steady losses. St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished in 1782 to make way for the Bank of England. Others, such as St Dionis Backchurch and St Antholin Budge Row, were lost to Victorian parish rationalisation. Many were destroyed or badly damaged in the Second World War. Only twenty-three of the original fifty-one remain. These are now under threat again, with the Templeman Report's proposal that only four of the existing churches (none by Wren) should be retained as parish churches. They provide a test case of conservation, sitting as they do in the middle of the City of London. The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren presents a clear case both for their importance and for their preservation.
Author : A H (Arthur Heygate) 18 Mackmurdo
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013639154
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Author : Stephen Millar
Publisher : Metro Pub Limited
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1902910419
Celebrates the city's church heritage with a guide to its structures, providing a description, history, date of construction, location, and operating hours for each building.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture religieuse - Angleterre - Londres
ISBN : UOM:39015022250370
Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784423230
Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture – but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and more than fifty parish churches after the Great Fire of London, among his countless other projects Wren also designed the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, and much of Hampton Court Palace. Replete with colourful images of his buildings, this concise biography tells the story of a man whose creations are still popular tourist attractions to this day, but also casts light on Wren's credentials as an intellectual and a founding member of the Royal Society.
Author : A E. Daniell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433068993686
Author : William Niven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Church buildings
ISBN : UGA:32108027716649
Author : Simon Bradley,Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300096550
More than fifty astonishingly varied churches, a group of buildings without parallel anywhere in the world, are crowded into Europe's financial centre, the City of London. Simon Bradley explores their unique history, arcitecture, rich fittings and stained glass. Lost churches are listed, and their little known churchyards explored. Numerous text figures and excellent photographs (newly taken by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments) help make this the indispensable guide to the church architecture of London's ancient 'Square Mile'. London: The City Churches is the second paperback addition to Pevsner's Buildings of England series.
Author : Silke Lübbert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638729604
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, University of Paderborn (Institut f r Anglistik), course: London the urban experience, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When most people think of St. Paul's Cathedral in London the image of Christopher Wren's magnificent classical church rises in their minds, but there was a cathedral dedicated to St. Paul long before the construction of Wren's cathedral. This paper is going to show how St. Paul's Cathedral became what it is today and what a church can be apart from a place for sermons. Cathedrals have always played more than one role in the communities they serve. Their central purpose is to bring people closer to God, but over the centuries they have served as a focal point for trade, as fortresses and sanctuaries in times of war, and as vast status symbols - reflections of wealth and power of the region in which they stand. These functions take on an additional significance for St Paul's, the cathedral of the capital city and also of the nation. Today's Church belongs to the people of the nation. For example, every citizen can be married or have a funeral service in his or her parish church; priests can marry couples without the presence of a civil official; and the General Synod, the Church of England's governing body, is the only organisation outside Parliament that has the power to legislate. Cathedrals are perhaps the ultimate reflection of this inclusiveness. Unlike parish churches, which exist to minister to the people of the local area in which they stand, they are a route to God for the larger community - a place of celebration and mourning where feelings can be shared and the sheer scale and beauty of the architecture, services and music allows visitors to experience the serenity and spirituality that are an essential counterpoint to the bustle of everyday life.
Author : George Henry Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : LCCN:10027287
Author : Leigh Hatts
Publisher : Bankside Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780954570507
Author : Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Anglican church buildings
ISBN : OCLC:24360654
Author : Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226173038
Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole—a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity."
Author : Margaret Emma Tabor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Church buildings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036417462