Bowman, Henry, 1814-1883, The churches of the Middle Ages , [1853?]
- Title(s):
The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.
- Published/Created:
- London : George Bell, publisher, Fleet Street, [1853?]
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 55 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsS 35 (Folio A)Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1602781
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Vol. I. : [4], 4 pages, 58 plates ; v. II. : [4] pages, 59 plates.
Includes "Classified index to the plates" in Volume I.
"Now publishing, The Churches of the Middle Ages, by Henry Bowman and Joseph S. Crowther, architects, Manchester. To be completed in twenty parts, each containing six plates, imperial folio. Issued at intervals of two months. Price per part to subscribers: proof, large paper, 10s. 6d. ; tinted, small paper, 9s. ; plain, 7s. 6d."--See Notes and queries: a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc. London : George Bell, (May 25, 1850, page 495). Publication of the parts concluded in 1853 according to the Ecclesiologist, No. XCIX-December 1853 (New Series, No. LXIII), pages 435-436.
Date of publication stated as 1857 in the Avery Memorial Architectural Library Catalog and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (see under: Bowman, John Eddowes, the elder).
Title pages of both volumes include seven lines of the Piers Plowman's Crede (i.e. Pierce the Ploughman's Creed).
Lithographs by Edward Salomons, James Fowler, Robert Moffat Smith, George Hawkins, and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, after Henry Bowman, Joseph Stretch Crowther, John Garrard Elgood, Edward Salomons, James Fowler, and Robert Moffat Smith.
"Plates marked at top: Churches of the Middle Ages, and numbered not in one series, but with a fresh series for each church"--Abbey.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University (2nd ed.), AE B67
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 35
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in half red morocco, gilded edges. Autograph: John Lampon. - Subject Terms:
- Architecture, Gothic -- England.Architecture, Gothic.Architecture, Medieval -- England.Church architecture -- England.Church architecture.England.Lampon, John -- Autograph.
- Form/Genre:
- Lithographs.
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- Volume I.: I. S. Andrew's, Ewerby, Lincolnshire
- II. S. Mary's Chapel of the Preceptory of the Knights Templars, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire
- III. S. Dionysius, Silli Willoughby, Lincolnshire
- IV. S. Stephen's, Etton, Northamptonshire
- V. S. John's Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
- VI. Collegiate Church of Christ, Manchester
- VII. All Saints, South Lime, Lincolnshire
- VIII. S.S. Mary and Nicholas, Nantwich, Cheshire.
- Volume II.: I. S. Andrew's, Heckington, Lincolnshire
- II. S. Peter's, Threekingham, Lincolnshire
- III. S. Andrew's, Helpringham, Lincolnshire
- IV. S. John's, Wappenbury, Warwickshire
- V. S. Peter's, Claypole, Lincolnshire
- VI. S. Mary's, Frampton, Lincolnshire.
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