Contents

pp 5-5

Acknowledgements

pp 6-6

Notes on scope and geography

pp 7-7

Abbreviations

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-16

Part 1 - Late-Georgian church building: the context

pp 17-18

1 - The Church in Danger’

pp 19-32

Part 2 - Architects and architecture

pp 33-34

2 - Ecclesiastical architecture and questions of style

pp 35-52

3 - Church designers and their world

pp 53-68

4 - Constructional and decorative innovations in church building

pp 69-82

5 - Designing for worship: the practical issues

pp 83-96

6 - Planning liturgical space

pp 97-108

Part 3 - Churchgoing

pp 109-110

7 - Late-Georgian worship

pp 111-122

8 - Seating the congregation

pp 123-134

Part 4 - Late-Georgian church building

pp 135-136

9 - Late eighteenth-century church building: the final triumph of Classicism

pp 137-154

10 - Church building 1800–1820

pp 155-170

11 - Case study 1: the Gothic Revival in West Yorkshire and Liverpool, c.1790–1820

pp 171-182

12 - Design debates and solutions, c.1820: the Commissioners, the ICBS and publications

pp 183-198

13 - Church building in the 1820s

pp 199-212

14 - Case study 2: church building in London, c.1790–1830; from Classical to Gothic

pp 213-228

15 - Case study 3: church building in south-east Lancashire, c.1790–1830; the role of the clergy

pp 229-244

16 - Church building in the 1830s

pp 245-266

17 - 1840: a brave new world?

pp 267-276

Part 5 - Conclusions

pp 277-278

18 - Conclusions

pp 279-283

Select Gazetteer

pp 284-289