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Oxford Jackson - Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924 (Hardcover)
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Oxford Jackson - Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In the late nineteenth century one man changed Oxford forever. T.
G. Jackson built the Examination Schools, the Bridge of Sighs,
worked at a dozen colleges, and restored a score of other Oxford
icons. He also built for many of the major public schools, for the
University of Cambridge, and at the Inns of Court. A friend of
William Morris, he was a pioneering member of the arts and crafts
moment. A distinguished historian, he also restored dozens of
houses and churches - and ensured the survival of Winchester
Cathedral. As an architectural theorist he was a leader of the
generation that rejected the Gothic Revival and sought to develop a
new and modern style of building. Drawing on extensive archival
work, and illustrated with a hundred images, this is the first
in-depth analysis of Jackson's career ever written. It sheds light
on a little-known architect and reveals that his buildings, his
books, and his work as an arts and craftsman were not just
important in their own right, they were also part of a wider social
change. Jackson was the architect of choice for a particular group
of people, for the 'intellectual aristocracy' of late Victorian
England. His buildings were a means by which they could articulate
their identity and demonstrate their distinctiveness. They reformed
the universities and the schools whilst he refashioned their image.
Essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian architecture
and nineteenth-century society, this book will also be of interest
to all those who know and love Oxford or Cambridge.
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