Newman University Church, Dublin
Architectural Revivalism in the British Isles and the Authority of Form
9781800087019
9781800087026
Distributed for UCL Press
Newman University Church, Dublin
Architectural Revivalism in the British Isles and the Authority of Form
The first-ever account of the historic relationship between the church and early architecture in Dublin.
Newman University Church, Dublin charts the first ever analysis of University Church’s significance within the history of Victorian revivalist architecture. Author Niamh Bhalla explores the relationship between the church’s context as the first Catholic university in Ireland and the ambiguity of its “early Christian” style, providing an effective lens to understand the architectural revivalism of the nineteenth century, particularly basilican and Byzantine revivalist architectures in the British Isles.
Newman University Church, Dublin charts the first ever analysis of University Church’s significance within the history of Victorian revivalist architecture. Author Niamh Bhalla explores the relationship between the church’s context as the first Catholic university in Ireland and the ambiguity of its “early Christian” style, providing an effective lens to understand the architectural revivalism of the nineteenth century, particularly basilican and Byzantine revivalist architectures in the British Isles.
234 pages | 32 color plates | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2024
Architecture: British Architecture, History of Architecture
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 The idea of a university church
2 The basilican design and the continuity of the Church
3 An architecture of the interior: a colourful and affective analogy
4 Newman and medieval revivalism in England and Ireland
5 The apse ‘mosaic’ and Newman’s Idea of a University
6 Neo-Byzantinism and new visions for the future
Bibliography
Index