Bringing them to their knees: church-building and restoration in Leicestershire and Rutland 1800-1914

By Geoffrey K Brandwood 2002

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The quantity and quality of Victorian church-building and restoration was unparalleled since the Middle Ages. Despising the work of their Georgian predecessors, the Victorians transformed nearly every existing Anglican church and built thousands of new ones. The gothic style - in many different guises - held sway well into the 20th century, and in the hands of many capable architects, was the framework for numerous masterpieces.

Geoff Brandwood provides a succinct and readable account of this remarkable religious, architectural and cultural phenomenon by looking at what took place in two counties of Midland England. He examines the state of pre-Victorian churches, the rapid spread of the new ideas, developments in church fittings, and the changing face of church architecture down to the First World War. This takes in work by many of the great masters of the gothic revival such as Butterfield, Scott, Street, Pearson, as well as the achievements of local and regional architects.

Additional information

Paperback
154 pages including 53 illustrations
Contains an extensive gazetteer of all churches in the region which had work carried out to them in the period 1800-1914.
ISBN 0 9542388 0 X

Still available and STILL an important reference work: