Bhalla, N;
(2024)
Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form.
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
In 1854, John Henry Newman, one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, was officially installed as the rector of the first Catholic university in Ireland. University Church (constructed in 1855–6) was Newman’s first objective when he agreed to the rectorship and it can be considered as a tangible manifestation of the idea behind the unprecedented Catholic university in Dublin – the posing of an erudite Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony through a style-based analogy to the early Church. Despite physically embodying what Newman wished to achieve in and through his new university, this ‘early Christian' style church, which drew upon Roman and Byzantine basilicas, has received little attention. This book charts for the first time the significant place that the building occupies within the history of Victorian revivalist architecture. Niamh Bhalla explores the meaningful connection between the church’s context and the ambiguity of its ‘early Christian’ style. In the intersection of these two things, a significant monument was created. The study of University Church therefore provides an effective lens to understand more comprehensively the architectural revivalism that dominated the nineteenth century, particularly the first stirrings of basilican and Byzantine revivalist architectures in the British Isles.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087002 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Bhalla, N. 2024. Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087002 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | John Henry Newman, revivalism, architecture, Victorian, Roman basilicas, Byzantine revival, Catholic University of Ireland |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192728 |
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