Following on from 100 Buildings 100 Years and 100 Houses 100 Years, this book illustrates and describes 100 churches and chapels built in the UK since 1914, charting the development of buildings for worship.

In this period concrete and steel gave a new freedom to construction, while new ideas about how congregations could participate in services changed assumptions about traditional layouts, bringing celebrants and people closer together. The century saw dynamic churches in dramatic shapes of all sizes thanks to ambitious engineering, and brilliant colour from new forms of stained glass, murals and sculpture.

Architects whose work is included here range from Basil Spence and Edward Maufe, designers of major cathedrals, to the radical Gillespie, Kidd and Coia whose brutalist seminary lies abandoned near Dumbarton. The book provides biographies of major designers; articles on glass, fittings, and on the synagogues, mosques and temples that play an intrinsic and important part in worship in Britain today. Contributors include architectural historians Elain Harwood, Alan Powers and Clare Price.

Beautiful photography throughout showcases the very best of British church design, whether it is the minimal symmetry of a timber-framed altar, or light streaming in through a multi-coloured stained glass panel.

About the Author
The Twentieth Century Society is a British charity that campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage from 1914 onwards. They provide support and advice to architects and planning authorities to protect the best twentieth-century architecture and design, whether through listing or sympathetic development and management.

Reviews

'An entrancing book that deserves a wide readership'

-- Martin Cherry, * AMS Journal *

'An enlightening introduction to twentieth-century church architecture'

* EASA Journal (The Journal of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association) *

'A [...] subtle and scholarly investigation into the history of British church building in the modern era... brings an eccentric cast of ecclesiastical architects to life.'

* The Guardian *

'A compulsive page turner'

-- Marcus Binney * Country Life *

'If you thought that all church architecture of note belongs to the distant past, here is a revelation.'

* Best of British *



Book Information
ISBN 9781849945141
Author Twentieth Century Society
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Batsford Ltd
Publisher Batsford Ltd