Author: MACKLEY, ALAN.
Title: The Restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906.
Description: Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017. 9781783271672. 1st edition. "In 1881, after decades of mouldering into ruin, the grand fifteenth-century church of Blythburgh, Suffolk, "The Cathedral of the Marshes", was closed as unsafe. The church was saved - but its rescue involvd a bitter twenty-five year long dispute between Blythburh vicars and committees, and William Morris and his Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, who feared that the medieval fabric would be over-restored and the character of the building lost forever." Pp.lx/313, frontispiece + 8 colour plates and 14 further black & white plates plus a map of Suffolk. Green boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Mackley Restoration Blythburgh Church Ipswich William Morris Society Protection Ancient Buildings Restoration Committee Church History 51908 East Anglia: : Suffolk


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