Author: BALDWIN BROWN G
Title: From Schola to Cathedral: a study of early Christian architecture and its relation to the life of the church.
Description: Edinburgh, David Douglas 1886 xvi, 231pp, 28 illustrations, fold out table. 23x16, red cloth, glt lettering and design. End papers browned, some marks on cloth, good thus. Baldwin Brown was best known for his multi-volume Arts in Early England, and also for his work in establishing the architectural conservation movement in Scotland. In this work he concludes, uncontroversially for the time, that Gothic is the supreme embodiment of Western Christian architecture.

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE CHURCHES


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