Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican architecture, patronage and churchgoing in England 1790-1840

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality.

This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After centuries of post-Reformation inactivity, the Church of England began to address the desperate shortage of accommodation and build on a huge scale. Almost all the leading architects were involved and, amongst approximately 1500 new churches there are so...