Category Archives: Churches

Derbyshire Tuscan

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sally Stone

All Saints RC Church, Hassop, Derbyshire. Designed by Joseph Ireland and built 1816-18.”The design is in the severest Classical Revival style: a correct Etruscan temple front, tetrastyle, prostyle.” (Pevsner, Buildings of England) Photoset 

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Salisbury

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Sally Stone

Salisbury Cathedral cloister.

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Lattice and Font

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

Lattice and font. St Edward the Confessor, Kempley, Gloucestershire. Randall Wells, architect. More … 

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The Aeronauts go to Ronchamp

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Sally Stone

Three Mirage 2000 jets of L’armée de l’air fly north towards the Franche Comte/Lorraine border in this odd postcard from Ronchamp*. The aerial view is not particularly flattering to a building that was designed to be approached from the slopes … Continue reading →

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Research Studentship

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Sally Stone

  Pugin: the Search for the True Gothic 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the most important architects of the nineteenth century. His approach to the interpretation and creation of a … Continue reading →

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Redemption

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Sally Stone

Il Redentore from Zaterre.

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Ortigia

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Sally Stone

The duomo at Ortigia (Syracuse, Sicily) is built in and around the complete structure of the Greek temple of Athena.

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St Wilfrid remains in Hulme

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Sally Stone

A flying visit to St Wilfrid’s RC Church in Hulme, Manchester designed by A.W.N. Pugin. Pevsner writes: By Pugin, 1842, and memorable as a very early case of the archeologically convincing church … The exterior of the church is red … Continue reading →

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On the Ponte dei Miracoli

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sally Stone

On the Ponte dei Miracoli, Venice. Light; fragments of view; bridge as public space; the view and the viewer.

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Jack Coia and The Prototype Pavilion

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Aventinus

Our colleague James Robertson continues his doctoral research on Jack Coia with a presentation on his work at the Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium at the Henry Moore Institute (24-25 June 2010) in Leeds. The conference theme is ‘Architectural … Continue reading →

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Leaning Tower of Plečnik

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Crompton

St Antun* Catholic Church, Belgrade. 1936-63. Architect: Jože Plečnik A circular church with a circular tower that is now leaning slightly as can be seen in the gap between it and the neighbouring block. Monolithic columns in the porch have … Continue reading →

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It’s dark. Dark in the daytime.

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

Further to Richard’s post below, more pictures of BDP’s Underley Hall projects from the early ‘sixties. Photoset

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