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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
This study of the early nineteenth-century Church Building
Commission and its churches first appeared in 1961 and has long
been difficult to obtain. The author has now thoroughly revised it,
adding much new material and a wealth of illustrations, many of
which have never been published before. The book tells of the
setting up of the Commission to build churches in the godless new
towns, its trials and tribulations as it went about its work, the
buildings it erected, and the architects who designed them.
Historic and modern photographs, plans and drawings all reveal a
huge diversity of architecture, much of it of the highest quality.
It is now clear that, far from being a modest prelude to the
full-blown Gothic Revival, the Commissioners churches were an
essential factor in making the great Victorian explosion of
church-building possible.
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