Rochester Cathedral, 604-1540
Subtitle: An Architectural History
Edition: Illustrate edition
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: November 6, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780802042224
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Religious buildings; International Architecture - British; Architecture; History - Specific Styles; Medieval; History / Medieval; History - General
Description: "The aim of this study is to provide an architectural history of the medieval fabric of Rochester Cathedral, from its Saxon origins to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. The author places the development of the building in its artistic context by using comparisons with roughly contemporary buildings in order to assess the cathedral's significance, importance, and originality.

Through an analysis of the surviving building and an examination of the documents relating to several campaigns of restoration, primarily in the nineteenth century, a new chronology for several phases of the building is proposed, significantly revising the conclusions of the standard work on the cathedral, that of W.H.St.J. Hope, published in 1898/1900.

The study also takes into account the extensive body of literature that has developed since Hope's study, on the Anglo-Saxon, Romanesque, and Gothic periods in Britain."--BOOK JACKET.