Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design - The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop-category/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/ Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:29:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design - The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop-category/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/ 32 32 Victorian Architecture and Dynasticism – Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design Volume Nine https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/victorian-architecture-and-dynasticism-studies-in-victorian-architecture-design-volume-nine/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:05:46 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5842 Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design Volume Nine

This volume offers the first critical account of dynasticism in Victorian architecture and design, shedding new light on the cultural dynamics and motivations of the professionals who belonged to the dynasties of the period.

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]]> This volume offers the first critical account of dynasticism in Victorian architecture and design, shedding new light on the cultural dynamics and motivations of the professionals who belonged to the dynasties of the period, including architects, topographical artists, model makers, woodcarvers, and printer-publishers. Although architectural dynasties were defining features of the profession, their significance has been almost entirely overlooked by scholarship. The ninth journal demonstrates that dynasticism was a centrally formative element in the creation of Victorian architecture through six case studies and one interview. This Journal is edited by Dr Joshua Mardell, an architectural historian and lecturer at the Royal College of Art, who is also a member of the Victorian Society Publications Committee.

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]]> French Architecture and the English 1830 – 1914 Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design Volume Eight https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/french-architecture-and-the-english-1830-1914-studies-in-victorian-architecture-design-volume-eight/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:48:20 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=4344 Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design Volume Eight

This journal marks the first thorough exploration of the extensive French influences on Victorian and Edwardian architecture and decoration in England.

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]]> The allure of French fashions, pervasive in Victorian interior decoration and couture, encouraged the design of hotels, shops, public buildings, colleges and houses in an assortment of French Renaissance manners, notably the rich Second Empire style. Notable French architects also designed several ebullient buildings in England, commissioned by Francophiles and immigrants alike. In religious architecture, the English Gothic Revival was enriched and developed by mid Victorian architects’ passion for the noble churches of Normandy and the Ile de France. Later, the Edwardian period, coinciding with the Entente Cordiale, saw an outbreak of enthusiasm in England for French Beaux -Arts styles and methods of teaching architecture. All this is explored within the pages of this generously illustrated volume of accessible essays by experts from many backgrounds, including two Frenchmen and an Italian living in Paris.

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]]> Thomas Rickman & The Victorians https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/thomas-rickman-the-victorians/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:53:34 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3690 Rickman’s personal and professional networks were extensive. Although a Quaker, the Anglican clergy were his most significant group of patrons and the Church Building Act of 1818 launched his career. The seeming paradox of a Quaker accountant in Liverpool becoming a major builder of Anglican Commissioners’ Churches is one of the many themes this volume explores. Special offer £10 off for a limited time!

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]]> The eight articles in this issue of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design were developed at a 2017  University of Liverpool conference commemorating the bicentenary of Quaker architect Thomas Rickman ’s (1776-1841) Victorian architectural bestseller and ground-breaking hand book, ‘An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture. Rickman was the first author to accurately identify and describe the phases of medieval architecture. He acquired a reputation as a Gothic architecture expert due to his book’s success and founded an architectural practice. Although Rickman died at the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign he can be considered a ‘pre-Victorian’ architect as regards the design of parish churches and country houses in the 1820s and 30s.

Published 2019. Edited by Megan Aldrich & Alexandrina Buchanan, including articles by William Whyte and Joseph Sharples.

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]]> Churches 1870-1914 (Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design Volume 3) https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/churches-1870-1914-studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design-volume-3/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:52:29 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3688 Edited by Teresa Sladen and Andrew Saint. In the third issue of 'Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design', our topic is the most important buildings the Victorians built: they were talked about more than any other building-type and they took up more space in the architectural press. Now out of print.

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]]> The Puginian and High Victorian phases of church architecture and decoration have now been intensively studied. But the later Victorian and Edwardian period, equally rich in ecclesiastical art, is not yet so well understood, despite the legacy of a few fine and familiar architects like Bodley, Sedding and Temple Moore. These were years of less certainty and unanimity about the styles and purposes of church-building, greater caution in restoration and much thought and activity in the enrichment of existing fabric.

The essys in this issue of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design arose out of a lecture series held in Autumn 2006, which aimed to go beyond the usual monographic approach by tracing some general patterns of artistic development in church-building and decoration between 1870 and 1914, as well to celebrate some noteworthy and beautiful churches and their contents. All the contributors have spent years in the study of churches, and many have long been active in the work of the The Victorian Society.

The late Victorian church

Andrew Saint

Between medievalism and the Counter-Reformation: Catholic church building after

Pugin Peter Howell

Welsh chapels 1859-1914

Julian Orbach

Arts and Crafts churches

Alan Crawford

Byzantium in the chancel: surface decoration and the church interior

Teresa Sladen

Accommodating ritual display: episcopal monuments 1896-1915

Philip Ward-Jackson

Women and church art

Lynne Walker

The architecture of good taste: Anglican churches in 1914

Gavin Stamp

 

ISBN 978-0-901657-52-7

Published October 2010.

The publication of this third volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design has been made possible by a generous bequest from Eliot Hodgkin (1905-87), for many years a member of the The Victorian Society, and is dedicated to his memory.

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]]> Ecclesiology Abroad https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/ecclesiology-abroad/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:02:45 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3171 Edited by Alex Bremner. In the fourth issue of 'Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design', our topic is the influence of the Ecclesiological movement and the work of British church architects in the rest of the English-speaking world. Now out of print.

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]]> Victorian architecture is a diverse and multifaceted phenomenon the manifestations of which can be found not only in Britain but across the world. Ecclesiastical architecture in particular was widespread, carried to Britain’s colonies and beyond by clergymen, architects, engineers, as well as via the numerous specialist publications in circulation at the time. This movement of people and ideas around the globe led to an especially rich period of church building activity, involving architects as acclaimed as A.W.N. Pugin, G.G. Scott, William Butterfield, William White, and many others.

The essays in this issue of Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design, which originate in a The Victorian Society symposium held in 2010, bring together noted scholars from a variety of countries in an analysis of the commonalities and peculiarities of ecclesiastical architecture in the wider Victorian world. Comprising eight major articles, and spanning four continents, including Canada, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America, these essays shed new light on the advent of ecclesiology and its influence abroad.

Victorian Architecture – an Expanded Field Alex Bremner

‘Solemn Chancels and Cross Crowned Spires’: Pugin’s Antipodean Vision and its Implementation Brian Andrews

The Ecclesiology of Expediency in Colonial Australia Miles Lewis

Experiments in Ecclesiology: Anglican Church Building in Colonial New Zealand Ian Lochhead

The Introduction of Ecclesiology to Nova Scotia Peter Coffman

William White in the Colonies Gill Hunter

Bishop Robert Gray and Mrs Sophia Gray: Building Anglican Churches in South Africa, 1848-72 Desmond Martin

Henry Conybeare and the Gothic Revival in Bombay c.1840-1900 Mariam Dossal

Churches of the Holy Zebra: the Technicolor Meeting House in North America Michael J. Lewis

ISBN 978-0-901657-53-4

Published October 2012

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]]> Pevsner and Victorian Architecture https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/pevsner-and-victorian-architecture/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:59:14 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3168 Edited by Susie Harries. In the fifth issue of 'Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design', our topic is Pevsner and Victorian architecture. Now out of print.

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]]> In October 2011 the The Victorian Society held a study day marking the publication of the first complete biography of Nikolaus Pevsner, founder member, Chairman and first President of the Society. Pevsner was both a champion and a trenchant critic of Victorian architecture and this collection – the proceedings of that study day- explores the seeming contradictions within his approach and sets out some challenges to his position.

Above all, it celebrates the tenacity with which for years he drew attention to buildings he felt expressed the spirit of their age as any architecture before or since.

Simon Bradley describes Pevsner most consistent effort to publicise Victorian architecture through The Buildings of England and other writings – the origins of the campaign its progress and some of its peculiarities. But this was no paper crusade: Pevsner was a key figure in the VicSoc’s practical struggles to preserve some of the most significant buildings of the era. Peter Howell re-fights some of the major battles in the conservation war, while Jonathan Meades explores Pevsner’s relationship with another key combatant , John Betjeman.

While Pevsner’s work on Victorian Architecture has , half a century later, been overtaken in places, his ideas remain stubborn points of reference to be cited, corroborated – or contested. Alan Crawford offers an alternative interpretation of the Arts and Crafts movement to that in Pevsner’s Pioneers, while Robert Thorne discusses Pevsner’s curious reluctance to give due weight in his analysis of Victorian buildings to the processes by which they were made – their material and construction.

Pevsner’s academic interest in Victorian architecture was underpinned by a genuine personal involvement. Susie Harries explores his approach in the context of his Character, temperament and moral and intellectual preferences. Jane Fawcett, the late Ian Sutton, Julian Orbach and Nicolas Taylor remember Pevsner the man, as employer, colleague, mentor, teacher and friend.

ISBN 978-0-901657-54-1

Published June 2015

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]]> Victorians Revalued (Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design Volume 2) https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/victorians-revalued-studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design-volume-2/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:56:23 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3164 Edited by Rosemary Hill, Colin Cunningham and Aileen Reid. In the second issue of 'Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design' we look at what the twentieth century thought of nineteenth-century architecture. Now out of print.

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]]> Until the 1960s Victorian buildings were routinely demolished, decried as ‘monstrosities’ or at best enjoyed for their amusement value – the ‘Victoriana tendency’ of Lytton Strachey. By the beginning of the twenty-first century their beauty and utility were so generally accepted that the reopening of St Pancras International was greeted ecstatically. That this shift in taste occurred in the half century after the The Victorian Society was founded is no coincidence. This second volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design marks the 50th anniversary of that event by surveying the Society’s influence and other aspects of Victorian architecture’s rehabilitation.

What did we do for the Victorians? Gavin Stamp

From Eaton Hall to Tyntesfield: changing attitudes to the Victorian country house Colin Cunningham

How the tide turned for Gothic Revival churches Michael Hall

From Pugin to Voysey: collecting and preserving nineteenth-century drawings and archives Susan Pugh

“Those damned Victorians!”: John Summerson’s changing vision of the Victorians Frank Salmon

Das englische Haus revisited Stefan Muthesius

What about the Edwardians? Ian Dungavell

ISBN 978-0-901657-51-0

Published October 2010.

The publication of this second volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design has been made possible by a generous bequest from Eliot Hodgkin.

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]]> The 1840s (Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design Volume 1) https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design/the-1840s-studies-in-victorian-architecture-and-design-volume-1/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:33:00 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3162 Edited by Rosemary Hill and Michael Hall. In the first issue of 'Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design' we begin at the beginning with essays on aspects of architecture in the first full decade of the reign. Now out of print.

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]]> Introduction: Architecture and the 1840s Rosemary Hill

From gilded dream to learning laboratory: Owen Jones’s study of the Alhambra Carol A. Hrvol Flores

William Burn and the design (and re-design) of Sandon Hall, Staffordshire Paul Bradley

Rail, steam and speed Gavin Stamp

‘Our Own’: Thomas Hope, A. J. Beresford Hope and the creation of the High Victorian style Michael Hall

Architectural drawings of the 1840s: a newly discovered portfolio Helen Dunstan-Smith and Rosemary Hill

Elizabeth Simcoe and her daughters: amateur ecclesiastical design in the 1840s Jim Cheshire

William Whyte: the early years Gill Hunter

ISBN 978-0-901657-50-3

Published October 2008.

The publication of this first volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design has been made possible by a generous bequest from Dorothy Cathilda Fraser, for many years a member of the The Victorian Society, and is dedicated to her memory.

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