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ISBN: PB: 9780226173030

University of Chicago Press

December 2002

200 pp.

23.4x21.6 cm

12 colour plates, 65 halftones

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Hawksmoor's London Churches

Architecture and Theology

Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole – a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity".


Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
List of Abbreviations
1. Wren, Hawksmoor, and the Wonders of the World
2. Hawksmoor and the Divines
3. Hawksmoor's Aspiring Steeples
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Chronological List of Representations of the Temple of Jerusalem in the English Language, 1627-1741
Appendix 2. Sir Christopher Wren's Letter of Recommendations to a Friend on the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches
Appendix 3. George Hickes's Observations on John Vanbrugh's Proposals about Building the Fifty New Churches
Appendix 4. Rules for the Fifty New Churches Set Down by the Commissioners and Their Subcommittee
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey is a professor in the Department of Art at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of several books, most recently "The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity".