The English Country House Chapel: Building a Protestant Tradition.

RICKETTS, ANNABEL & Simon Ricketts (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1904965059 / ISBN 13: 9781904965053

Published by Reading: Spire Books,, 2007

About this Item

255 x 190 mm. 346 pp. & [16] of colour illustrations, and text illustrations throughout. [ISBN: 978-1904965053] Hardbound. First three pages with two slanted vertical crease. Otherwise a very good bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The English Country House Chapel: Building a Protestant Tradition.
• Publisher: Reading: Spire Books,
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904965059
• ISBN 13: 9781904965053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

This unique study shows how the aristocracy and gentry provided their houses with places of worship after the upheavals of the Reformation. Dr Ricketts makes illuminating discoveries, explodes deeply-rooted misconceptions, and shows how, by the end of the 17th century, and after many false starts, a new and more enduring form of private Protestant chapel had evolved as a fundamental part of the English country house. Before her untimely death in 2003, the architectural historian Annabel Ricketts had made the study of the 16th- and 17th-century private chapel her own. Under the editorship of her husband, Simon Ricketts, academic friends and colleagues have helped adapt her doctoral thesis for a wider readership without diluting its scholarly value. The study ranges across a number of disciplines - social, ecclesiastical, decorative, and architectural - and adds greatly to the understanding of the English country house.

About the Author

by Annabel Ricketts