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The Practice of
Architecture
eight architects
1830–1930
Christopher Webster
(Editor)
Chichester
A Walk in the City
Sue Finniss (Author);
John Elliott (Author)
The Institute of British Architects was established
in 1834 with the published aim of establishing
uniformity in the profession, yet, for the each of the
eight architects included in this book, architectural
practice involved a different set of principles and
activities. Together they provide a revealing picture
of the profession in this seminal period of its
development.
“Chichester is a major cathedral city which has also
managed to retain a very rich architectural heritage
with an important cathedral building, architecturally
important buildings in the Close and equally important
structures in the city. This book attempts to capture
the spirit of this heritage by mixing the visual with
the descriptive: mixing pictures and words to describe
one of the major UK cathedral cities.
Sue Finniss is a watercolour artist of some distinction.
Her style is precise and descriptive. John Elliott is an
architectural historian and publisher. This book is a
fusion of these talents.
9781904965350, £34.95, Available Now
HB, 240p, 141 b/w illus, Spire Books
9781904965398, £22.95, Available Now
HB, 96p, 44 col illus, Spire Books
The Glossary
of Ecclesiastical
Ornament and
Costume
A.W.N Pugin (Author)
John Tweed
Sculpting the Empire
Nicola Capon (Author)
Architecture
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The Glossary is Pugin’s largest and most magnificent
book. He intended that his two Dublin Review articles
of 1842 would be accompanied by a third dealing with
ornament and decoration. However, this developed
into a grand survey church ornaments, vessels
and vestments which are dealt with alphabetically,
including long-forgotten ones he hoped to revive. This
masterly survey reveals the extraordinary breadth and
depth of Pugin’s researches. Its chief glory lies in 73
superb chromolithographs showing ‘correctly’ vested
clergy and a wide range of patterns for embroidery,
monograms and emblems. ‘Never – in modern days at
least – were illuminations more exquisite, concluded
The Ecclesiologist (1844).
9781904965428, £69.95, Available Now
HB, 350p, 73 illus., Spire Books
John Tweed (1869–1933) was a hugely successful
artist who, during his lifetime, became known as ‘The
Empire Sculptor’. After training at the Glasgow School
of Art, he moved to London and then spent six months
in Paris. There he met August Rodin and went on to
become his principal agent and friend in England.
Tweed worked at the very heart of the London art
world and created lasting images of many leading
Victorian and Edwardian figures such as Cecil Rhodes
and Lord Kitchener. His legacy of public sculptures is to
be found ranged across the British Empire. This is the
first book to consider John Tweed’s place in art history
and is the result of a four-year project to catalogue
the sculptor’s archive at Reading Museum.
9781904965435, £14.95, March 2013
PB, 112p, 56 b/w illus, Spire Books