Main entry:

Olsberg, R. Nicholas, author.

Title & Author:

The master builder : William Butterfield and his times / Nicholas Olsberg ; photographs by James Morris.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2024.
©2024

Description:

430 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Past and present. The church revival, 1843-54 -- The Missionary Cathedral, 1847-53 -- "Cha Till Mi Tuilleadh", 1948-78. -- "Parochialia". The New Parish Social System, 1845-51 -- "Church extension," 1845-57. Simplification : five country parishes -- The flowering of the Country School, 1857-73. -- "The hearth, the altar, and the grave". 'Setting apart,' 1854-71. Ideal village and minimal church -- Recuperation of the Parish Church, 1847-73 -- "Arrears of neglect", 1865-84. -- Overgrown towns. "The classes and the masses" : London, 1850-70. Precints of London -- "North and south", 1848-65 -- Fresh air : resort and country surburb, 1845-91. -- "The way we live now." -- Social hygiene and civic order, 1857-76. Coal and cotton, brick and stone -- The church as civic landmark, 1870-96 -- Imperial London and its orbit, 1872-92. -- Character building. Liberal education : rugby, 1867-85. Modernity and motion : rugby school -- Physical discipline and mental cultivation : rugby, 1865-85 -- The expansive school, 1858-86. -- Fellowship, discipline, duty. Self government, 1874-92. Common ground -- "To Oxford" : University expansion and reform, 1857-64. "A community of feeling" : Keble College -- "Plain living and high thinking" : Keble College, 1867-82. -- Refuse, refreshment, repose. Cottage, lodge and country retreat, 1853-90. Art and craft of rural living -- "For the solace of his sick poor" : Cheddar Hospital, 1875-84 -- Retreat and commemoration : heath's court, 1878-82. Repose : Ottery St. Mary. -- Epilogue : regeneration, 1884-94.

Summary:

"William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous and brilliant architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire Victorian era. This book addresses the emergence of a modern society, with rapidly expanding new institutions and a changing moral code and explores how Butterfield responded to and advanced that transformation. It reflects the changing emphasis of Butterfield's work: first, the revival, rebuilding and reform of the country parish; next the role of the church and the agents of social health in the burgeoning town and city; third, the revolution in secondary education and college life; and finally, sites of refuge, sanctuary, repose and remembrance. Drawing extensively on the literature of the time, each chapter discusses a societal shift and surveys Butterfield's most important architectural contributions to this. Woven through the book are characterisations of the often colourful men and women who were Butterfield's patrons and associates. It not only provides in-depth analyses of seminal projects such as All Saint's Margaret Street, Keble College, and Rugby School, along with lesser known, but equally influential works such as Exeter Grammar School, but it also shows how Butterfield through his wide range of work created whole new typologies of buildings - from hospitals and care homes, to seaside resorts, urban schools and working men's colleges, to the Coleridge's great country house in Devon and the village parsonages, cottages and schools in which the characteristics of the Arts and Craft movement first appeared." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781848223714 (hbk.)
1848223714

Subject:

Butterfield, William, 1814-1900. Works. Selections.
Church architecture Designs and plans.
Architecture England 19th century.
Architecture, Victorian.
Architecture chrétienne Dessins et plans.
Architecture.
Architecture Angleterre 19e siècle.
Architecture victorienne.
architecture (discipline)
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Added entries:

Morris, James, 1963- photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320465
Call No.: 320465
Copy: 1
Status: Available