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When Anglican architects built Catholic churches

February 01, 2023

A look at the work of those Anglican architects who built Catholic places of worship in the 19th and 20th centuries

The Holy Land: joy of the whole earth

January 03, 2023

The Herald’s architecture column follows the Editor on pilgrimage to the Holy Land

English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival, by James Steven Curl

January 03, 2023

English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival James Stevens Curl John Hudson Publishing, £50, 240 pages This handsome little book is an updating of Professor James Stevens Curl’s earlier 1995 work, The English Heritage Book of Victorian Churches. In those days he was restricted to mainly black and white plates. It is now lavishly illustrated

Catholic Herefordshire

December 02, 2022

Michael Hodges explores the built legacy of Catholicism in the county of Herefordshire

Beauty and the Beast

September 23, 2022

If only the re-orderers of churches had been guided by Roger Scruton

An historical study worth waiting for

August 12, 2022

A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 Mark Girouard Yale, £40, 372 pages Mark Girouard, born a Catholic in 1937, is the unchallenged doyen of English architectural historians, particularly after the recent lamented death of John Harris. His major works include The Victorian Country House (1971), Life in the English Country House (1978) and Robert

It’s the detail that is rewarding

August 12, 2022

Less than a year after a major refurbishment, the Courtauld Gallery has already had exhibitions of two of the biggest names in early modern art. There’s not much to rival Vincent van Gogh or Edvard Munch for raw power. Pieter Bruegel the Elder might have the same name recognition, but the nature of his work

The marvels of Campion Hall, Oxford

August 12, 2022

The main panel shows Mary crowned as Queen of Heaven surrounded by a garland of flowers and angels spreading her protective cloak over four supplicants. The other two panels show a Nativity Scene in winter and the Coronation of Our Lady in summer.