Farm Street

Michael Hall

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Farm Street

Michael Hall (editor)|Sheridan Gilley (editor)|Maria Perry (editor)|Andrew Twort (Photographs by)|Tiggy Butler (With)

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Format:: Hardback
ISBN:: 9781910787649
Published:: 30 Mar 2017
Publisher:: Unicorn
Dimensions:: 120 pages - 304mm x 250mmmm

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Building in Victorian Mayfair, but on an inauspicious site between some stables and a workhouse, the Jesuit fathers were anxious that the architecture and decoration of their London church should match its spiritual significance. Their architects created an interior of exceptional beauty and opulence, befitting the church’s Marian dedication, and Farm Street grew to become a powerhouse of British Catholicism, witnessing influential sermons by leading thinkers and the conversion to Rome of such prominent figures as Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell and Lord Longford. The authors of this book, the first large-scale study of Farm Street, Set out the Jesuits’ achievement there. Sheridan Gilley charts the intricate negotiations that led them to build when and where they did, and those who helped and hindered them. Michael Hall’s definitive architectural history of the building examines the work of its talented architects, sculptors and designers, and Andrew Twort’s especially commissioned photographs record it in all its splendour. Maria Perry continues the story, through the privations of the war years of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first. This sumptuous book, whose proceeds support the ministry of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, tells the remarkable story of one of London’s great Catholic institutions.

Michael Hall, formerly Architectural Editor of Country Life and then Editor of Apollo, writes widely on architectural history. Among his recent books is the Prize-winning George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (2014). Sheridan Gilley is Emeritus Reader in the Department of Theology and Religion in the University of Durham and Honorary Fellow in Catholic History in its Centre for Catholic Studies. He is the author of the acclaimed biography Newman and His Age (1990, 2003).

Maria Perry is a Tudor historian who has also written four books about London. One of these, The House in Berkeley Square (2003), a commissioned history of the Lansdowne Club, covers the development of Mayfair over two centuries. She has worshipped regularly at Farm Street since 1975.

Andrew Twort has taken photographs for over three decades for a wide range of clients, among them Architectural Digest USA, The World of Interiors, the Romo Group, Osborne & Little, Candy & Candy and a host of interior designers. This is his fourth complete book commission, and one of many Titles in which his work has featured throughout his career.

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