Puritan Architecture and its Future.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1946. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 99, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Very Good. Item #23947
A study of English church architecture from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The first section studies the history of the Puritan tradition from the Reformation to Congregational, Quaker, Methodists, Gothic Revival, and college and school chapels. The second section addresses the future of church building, discussing topics such as limited resources and their effect on design; functional requirements; acoustics, and much more, including a plea for the rebuilding of Puritan churches bombed during WWII. The author was a British architectural historian and author who specialized in the Baroque period.
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