Main entry:

Port, M. H. (Michael Harry)

Title & Author:

600 hundred new churches : the Church Building Commission, 1818-1856 / M.H. Port.

Edition:

[2nd ed. ].

Publication:

Reading : Spire Books Ltd., 2006.

Description:

386 pages : illustrations, 1 map, genealogical table, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Originally published in 1961.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-372) and index.
Ch. 1. The church building movement, 1810-1818 -- ch. 2. The First Church Building Act -- ch. 3. The Church Building Commission: the first steps -- ch. 4. The crown architects -- ch. 5. The organization and regulation of the Commission -- ch. 6. The relations of the commissioners with the architectural profession and the building trade -- ch. 7. 'Commodity, firmness ... ' -- ch. 8. Rickman, Goodwin & Busby -- ch. 9. Styles and local schools -- ch. 10. Sites and cognate powers -- ch. 11. The half-million grant -- ch. 12. Handling the half-million -- ch. 13. The Commission's last years -- ch. 14. The Church Building Commission: some general conclusions.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

1904965083
9781904965084

Subject:

Great Britain. Commissioners for Building New Churches.
Church of England History 19th century.
Church of England Histoire 19e siècle.
Church of England
Church architecture Great Britain.
Church buildings England.
Church development, New Great Britain.
Architecture chrétienne Grande-Bretagne.
Églises Angleterre.
Église Expansion Grande-Bretagne.
Church architecture
Church buildings
Church development, New
Great Britain Church history 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire religieuse 19e siècle.
England
Great Britain
Churches. 19th Century

Form/genre:

Church history
History

Added entries:

Church Historical Society (Great Britain)
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)

Six hundred new churches

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250514
Call No.: BIB 180012
Status: Available