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Article: The Georgian Parish Church: 'Monuments to Posterity': M.H. Port welcomes a fundamental contribution to the study of Georgian church architecture.(Book Review)
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The Georgian Parish Church: 'Monuments to Posterity' Terry Friedman Spire Books, Reading, 33.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 94536 15 3 9
Of late years an abundant shower of articles illuminating Anglican church-building in the once-condemned eighteenth century has fallen from Terry Friedman's pen. Now he weaves a continuous weft incorporating six exemplary churches. He focusses first on the main course of architectural development of the church, 'invariably the most important and conspicuous public architecture'--though this is less true later in the century, when county court houses tended to cost as much as a church, and gaols much more. But the concept of church ...