Gothic architecture and its meanings 1550-1830 / edited by Michael Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Michael, 1957-

Georgian Group (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Gothic--Great Britain--Congresses.

Architecture, Gothic.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Reading : Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Hall

Interpretations of medieval architecture, c.1550-c.1750 / Alexandrina Buchanan

The historiography of "Elizabethan Gothic" / Maurice Howard

"The wrong things at the wrong time" : 17th-century Gothic churches / Timothy Mowl

Sir John Vanbrugh and the search for a national style / Giles Worsley

Henry Keene and St. Mary, Hartwell / Terry Friedman

"The ivi'd ruins of folorn Grace Dieu" : Catholics, Romantics and late Georgian Gothic / Rosemary Hill.

Notes:

Contributions presented at a symposium organized for the Georgian Group on Oct. 28, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0954361504

OCLC:

51642516