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100 Churches 100 Years (Hardcover)
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100 Churches 100 Years (Hardcover)
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Following on from 100 Buildings 100 Years and 100 Houses 100 Years,
this book illustrates and describes 100 churches and chapels built
in the UK since 1914, charting the development of buildings for
worship. In this period concrete and steel gave a new freedom to
construction, while new ideas about how congregations could
participate in services changed assumptions about traditional
layouts, bringing celebrants and people closer together. The
century saw dynamic churches in dramatic shapes of all sizes thanks
to ambitious engineering, and brilliant colour from new forms of
stained glass, murals and sculpture. Architects whose work is
included here range from Basil Spence and Edward Maufe, designers
of major cathedrals, to the radical Gillespie, Kidd and Coia whose
brutalist seminary lies abandoned near Dumbarton. The book provides
biographies of major designers; articles on glass, fittings, and on
the synagogues, mosques and temples that play an intrinsic and
important part in worship in Britain today. Contributors include
architectural historians Elain Harwood, Alan Powers and Clare
Price. Beautiful photography throughout showcases the very best of
British church design, whether it is the minimal symmetry of a
timber-framed altar, or light streaming in through a multi-coloured
stained glass panel.
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