[Rarebooks] FS: 1845: Gothic Revival Churches Gone Wild!

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Poole, Rev. George Ayliffe. CHURCHES; THEIR STRUCTURE, ARRANGEMENT, AND 
DECORATION.

London; James Burns, Portman Street: 1845.

The Reverend George Ayliffe Poole was an important influence on the Gothic 
Revival as it was practiced by church builders in the 19th century, 
although he himself was eventually rejected by the most militant of the 
"Ecclesiologists", as not adhering strictly enough to their creed. 
"Ecclesiology" was a 19th century movement which found that the Gothic 
architecture of the great Medieval cathedrals perfectly expressed the 
"distinctive doctrines of Christianity, clothed upon with a material form" 
(Poole in his earlier work "The Appropriate Character of Church 
Architecture"). They deplored the plainness and proportions of "modern" 
churches which had begun with the Puritans and continued through the 18th 
century, and worked for a return to what they considered the "perfect" 
symbiosis of Christian creed, symbolism and architecture, as expressed in 
the Gothic form and decoration.

In this work Poole describes the reasons reform is needed and what form 
that reform might take (that being Gothic Revival), and described the 
architecture and furnishings of the perfect church in the minutest detail, 
down to the altar railings and fonts. Though disdained by the most radical 
of the Ecclesiologists as not pure enough, Poole's works were widely read 
on both sides of the Atlantic and were among those exerting great influence 
on American and English church architecture of the time.

Hardcover. 4.5"x7", iv + 152 pages, several decorative figures; bound in 
old coarse cloth and quarter leather with a red spine label; covers with 
some wear and rubbing; a little internal soil. Inscribed on the front 
endpaper- "The Reverend E.C. Park(illegible) from the Bishop of Quebec with 
best wishes for the happy completion of the good work of church building in 
which Mr. P. is engaged -" and then with the penned ownership note- "July 
22 - 1862 / E.C.P." The Rev. George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1789-1863) was 
the Anglican Bishop of Quebec from 1837 to 1863, and co-founder of Bishop's 
College. English by birth, he went to Canada in 1793 and in 1844 he 
traveled, by bark canoe, to the Indian missions of the Red River 
Settlement. We have been unable to identify the church-building Reverend 
"E.C.P.". [08137] $175.00

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