Search Results: CHURCH ARCHITECTURE from Chilton Books

The Chapels Society, 2016.. 1st edition. Contents: James Weir: A Wesleyan Architect by Alan Brooks; The Building of Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford by Martin Wellings; Beautiful Zion: The Transformation of Nonconformist Identity in a Yorkshire Mill Town by Kenneth C. Jackson; Garden City Religion: The Free Churches of Letchworth and Welwyn by Clyde Binfield. 24.5cms xx 17cms. Pp.90, 25 black & white figure illustrations. Paperback, crease to rear lower corner. G+.

The Chapels Society, 2010.. The Chapels Society Occasional Publications 5. Contents: Chapel People in 1851: the Example of Berkshire by Kate Tiller; 'Horribile Dictu': Unitarians and Ecclesiology in Northern England by Alan Petford; The Cross and the Crown: The First Church of Christ Scientist, Manchester, by Edgar Wood, by Sarah Hill; The Prime of T.Lewis Banks by Clyde Binfield. 24.5cms x 17cms. Pp.108, black & white and colour figure illustrations. Paperback. VG.

London: SAVE Britain's Heritage, 1987.. 1st edition. "Sets out to show how appropriate conversions can be achieved. It illustrates churches which have been adapted to new uses ranging from offices and housing to theatres and restaurants. It also suggests ways in which churches can be adapted to enable worship to continue, whilst part of the fabric is converted to some socially useful or commercially profitable use, thus contributing to the maintenance of the building." 30.5cms x 22cms x 1cms. Pp.131, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Illustrated stiff card cover. VG.

London: Robert Halle, 2004.. 1st edition. "A unique and comprehensive guide to these previously liittle known and often misunderstood medieval institutions. A collegiate church was the church of a college, which was a religious house served by secular priests....From the earler types there developed in the later Middle Ages the academic colleges, which have since flourished and become so important in modern society, Collegiate churches were often large and magnificent, and almost 150 remain to the present day, forming a superb body of architecture." Pp.480, many blacck & white photo illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, dusttwrapper ha sa removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

London: The Chapels Society, 2007.. Occasional Publications No.3. "The magnificent Union Chapel Islington is the starting point for research which throws new ligjt on the significant role played by Dissent in nineteenth-century society. Experts in different fields explore thje social networks, the construction and style of building, the interplay between worship and chapel design set against a wider European background, the importance of the Victorian Sunday school, and the development of the distinctive Nonconformist musical tradition." 24.5cms x 17cms. Pp.107, occasional colour and black & white photos and illustrations throughout. Paperback. VG.

London: John Van Voorst, 1844.. 1st edition. Introduction by Paley gives an outline history of baptismal fonts and their forms. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates with accompanying description and dimensions to facing pages, Unpaginated. Toning to inner endpapers. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed. G+.