Main entry:

Donnelly, Marian C. (Marian Card), author.

Title & Author:

The New England meeting houses of the seventeenth century.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [1968]

Description:

x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156).
New England Meeting Houses of the Great Migration, 1630-1642 -- Continental Protestant Architecture Before 1630 -- Reformation to Revolution: English Worship 1536-1643 -- Meeting Houses of the Middle Period: 1643-1660 -- Meeting Houses of the Late Period: 1661-1700 -- The New England Meeting House as Puritan Architecture -- Alphabetical List of Towns -- Chronological List of Meeting Houses, 1631-1700.

Summary:

"This carefully researched and exactingly scholarly study gives a more detailed account of the architecture if the meeting houses of the Congregational churches of New England between the years 1631 and 1700 than has ever been published before. Although these buildings that were so central to the public life of early America have been very frequently mentioned in various writings on American history and culture, they have been discussed in only the most general terms, largely because almost all of them have long since disappeared. Mrs. Donnelly, who first became interested in seventeenth-century American architecture while reading for her doctoral degree under the late Caroll L.V. Meeks at Yale University, has sought out and analyzed the remaining town records of each town in New England known to have had a Congregational church by 1700. These records were the single most important source of her research, though some facts were gleaned from passages in diaries and publications of the period. Mrs. Donnelly ha travelled widely abroad, studying English and Continental Protestant church architecture as well. She discuss the relationship between the American churches and the various European ones, and considers in detail their structures and their internal arrangements for worship. In addition to her careful architectural descriptions there are more than forty illustrations of such church buildings, both photographs and conjectural drawings. There are two appendices, one listing alphabetically the New England towns with early meeting houses and the other listing chronologically the meeting houses themselves, All the results of this research are here presented in what Mrs. Donnelly describes as "an introduction, " but what is surely an important study in American architectural history" - Publisher.

Subject:

Church buildings New England.
Church architecture New England.
Architecture New England History.
Religious architecture New England.
Églises Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Architecture religieuse Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Architecture chrétienne Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Architecture Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Religious architecture
Architecture
Church architecture
Church buildings
Kirchenbau
New England
Neuengland

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105772
Call No.: PO5986; ID:85-B16774
Status: Available