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The Master Builder - William Butterfield and His Times (Hardcover)
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The Master Builder - William Butterfield and His Times (Hardcover)
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William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous and brilliant
architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire
Victorian era, and whose major works are found from the Firth of
Clyde and shores of Belfast to the hills of Dublin and the cliffs
of Cardiff and Devon. This book addresses the emergence of a modern
society, its expansive institutions and its changing moral code,
exploring how Butterfield responded to and advanced that
transformation in the national life. It reflects the changing
emphasis of Butterfield’s work: first, the revival, rebuilding
and reform of the country parish; then the place of the church and
the agents of social health in the burgeoning town and city; third,
the quiet revolution in secondary education and college life; and
finally, sites of refuge, sanctuary, repose and remembrance.
Drawing extensively on the literature and discourse of the time,
each chapter discusses a societal shift and surveys Butterfield’s
most important architectural contributions to this. The chapters
are followed by portfolios of photographs and extraordinary sets of
coloured contract drawings of projects selected to show the
originality, conviction and variety of Butterfield’s designs.
Woven through the book are characterisations of the often colourful
men and women who were Butterfield’s patrons and associates,
including Gladstone, Pusey, Nightingale, and such lesser known but
equally crucial figures as Frederick Temple; ‘Mother’ Matilda
Blanche Gibbs; the writer Charlotte Yonge; and a score of reforming
vicars from the pious William Butler to the radical eccentric,
Edward Monro.
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