Author: WEBSTER Christopher
Title: R. D. Chantrell (1793-1872) and the architecture of a lost generation.
Description: Reading, Spire Books, 2010. 338pp, 194 b&w illustrations, bibliography, list of works. Cloth, dust wrapper, 26x20. Fine. A pioneering biography. "Chantrell - along with many architects of his generation - has hitherto been confined to the shadows of architectural history, shadows cast so adeptly by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists." He had trained in Soane's office and subsequently designed a string of compelling Classical buildings and many post-Waterloo Gothick Revival churches. His greatest building was probably Leeds Parish Church (1837-41).

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