Monday, 12 August 2019

Designs for Churches and Chapels by W. F. Pocock



This reprint of Pocock’s 1819 pattern book of Church designs is a window into the life of the Church of England before the Oxford Movement – it is a collection of preaching boxes, the key design consideration is to maximise the audibility of the preacher in their pulpit to a varying size of congregation (with a choice of neoclassical or gothick facades) – how far the Church as travelled in terms of liturgical practice, and even in terms of understanding of design and dynamics of space and place. .

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