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Assignment Four:
Essay Plan
Opening: * Introduction to St Chad’s and Pugin, built 1837-41. * Convert to Catholicism in 1835 * 1829 catholic emancipation act allow the building of catholic churches
Paragraph 2 * Description of building and architectural design and its significance * Brick work vs. stone, roof, windows, additions of statues, crypt designed in neo – Norman fashion
Paragraph 3 * Internal decoration and layout and its significance * Rood screen, function, issues with its installation and removal in 1967 in a re-ordering
Paragraph 4 * Summary of Pugins idea of tradition and why it can be considered dissent. * Discuss “contrasts” and its intention to highlight gothic architecture as tradition which had declined since reformation. * Gothic architecture as the national style. * Classical style developed from ancient Greece and Rome. Alien to northern Europe.
Assignment Four:
How were Pugin’s ideas on tradition expressed in the art and architecture of St Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham? In what ways might these ideas be seen as dissenting?
St Chad’s Cathedral was designed by Pugin and was completed during 1837 – 41. St Chad’s was the first Roman Catholic Church to be constructed in England following the reformation, a feat which was accomplished following The Roman Catholic Emancipation act of 1829. Pugin had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1835 and had published a number of works including his book “Contrast” to promote his preference for architecture in the Gothic style. Pugin worked as the assistant to Charles Barry on the palace of Westminster and is known to have designed the clock tower which holds ‘Big Ben’. For Pugin architecture represented much more than the building or style in which it is constructed, it was to tell the story of the society for which it is built and provide a glimpse in to the moral fabric of that society.
The first striking thing you will
Essay Plan
Opening: * Introduction to St Chad’s and Pugin, built 1837-41. * Convert to Catholicism in 1835 * 1829 catholic emancipation act allow the building of catholic churches
Paragraph 2 * Description of building and architectural design and its significance * Brick work vs. stone, roof, windows, additions of statues, crypt designed in neo – Norman fashion
Paragraph 3 * Internal decoration and layout and its significance * Rood screen, function, issues with its installation and removal in 1967 in a re-ordering
Paragraph 4 * Summary of Pugins idea of tradition and why it can be considered dissent. * Discuss “contrasts” and its intention to highlight gothic architecture as tradition which had declined since reformation. * Gothic architecture as the national style. * Classical style developed from ancient Greece and Rome. Alien to northern Europe.
Assignment Four:
How were Pugin’s ideas on tradition expressed in the art and architecture of St Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham? In what ways might these ideas be seen as dissenting?
St Chad’s Cathedral was designed by Pugin and was completed during 1837 – 41. St Chad’s was the first Roman Catholic Church to be constructed in England following the reformation, a feat which was accomplished following The Roman Catholic Emancipation act of 1829. Pugin had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1835 and had published a number of works including his book “Contrast” to promote his preference for architecture in the Gothic style. Pugin worked as the assistant to Charles Barry on the palace of Westminster and is known to have designed the clock tower which holds ‘Big Ben’. For Pugin architecture represented much more than the building or style in which it is constructed, it was to tell the story of the society for which it is built and provide a glimpse in to the moral fabric of that society.
The first striking thing you will
Bibliography: RICHARDSON, Carol. 2008. Figure 4.1 opening page from Pugin A.W.N (1841) The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. In: Reproduced in Tradition and Dissent , Milton Keynes: The Open University, p.129. RICHARDSON, Carol. 2008. Pugin and the revival of the gothic tradition. In: Tradition and Dissent, Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp.109-146. St Chad 's and Religious Art. Open University, 2008. [DVD ROM].