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Space and the Victorian ecclesiastical interior

Context:

The article builds on material researched for Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival (2004)

Research resides within the processes of:

Examining two Victorian church interiors, establishing the funding behind the building and decoration of the interiors; assessing how these projects can be understood in relation to current debates about craft and the articulation of architectural space.

Insights:

This chapter establishes the importance of craft based processes in the production of the Victorian ecclesiastical interior; contests the idea that Victorian ecclesiastical interiors were the product of inflexible industrial workshops; demonstrates how patrons intervened in the heraldry of encaustic tiles and the iconography of stained glass; argues that it was skilled artisans at the centre of the productive process that gave these fittings their semantic richness.