BOOK REVIEW
English Victorian Churches, Architecture, Faith & Revival by James Stevens Curl
Keble College Chapel, Oxford (1873-6, W Butterfield) - Geoff Brandwood.
Recently I had the privilege of revisiting and giving a talk about the strikingly fine High Victorian church of St Mark’s, Dundela, in Belfast, designed by William Butterfield, setting it in the context of the architect’s extraordinary ecclesiastical creations across
the British Isles. What a rewarding body of work is his, and how important it is to understand what was going on in terms of religious belief and debate affecting aesthetics in such dynamic ways in ecclesiastical architecture during the nineteenth century Perspective 91
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