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AFTER THE FIRE
LONDON CHURCHES IN THE AGE OF WREN, HOOKE, HAWKSMOOR AND GIBBS |
| By: |
Angelo Hornak, Stephen Platten (Foreword) |
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Hardback |
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£50.00 |
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£36.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1910258083 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781910258088 |
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| Publisher: |
PIMPERNEL PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2016 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
A glorious photographic survey of the London churches built in the sixty years after the Great Fire |
| Synopsis: |
`London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn summed up the destruction wrought by the Great Fire that swept through the City of London in 1666. The losses included St Paul's Cathedral and eight-seven parish churches (as well as at least thirteen thousand houses).In After the Fire, celebrated photographer and architectural historian Angelo Hornak explores, with the help of his own stunning photographs, the churches built in London during the sixty years that followed the Great Fire, as London rose from the ashes, more beautiful - and far more spectacular - than ever before. The catastrophe offered a unique opportunity to Christopher Wren and his colleagues - including Robert Hooke and Nicholas Hawksmoor - who, over the next forty years, rebuilt St Paul's and fifty-one other London churches in a dramatic new style inspired by the European Baroque.Forty-five years after the Fire, the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711 gave Nicholas Hawksmoor the scope to build breathtaking (and controversial) new churches including St Anne's Limehouse, Christ Church Spitalfields and St George's Bloomsbury.By the 1720s the pendulum was swinging away from the Baroque of Wren and Hawksmoor, and it was James Gibbs' more restrained St Martin-in the-Fields that was to provide the prototype for churches throughout the English-speaking world - especially in North America - for the next hundred years. |
| Illustrations: |
280 colour and black and white photographs and illustrations; 65,000 words |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pimpernel Press Ltd |
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Returnable |
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