{"product_id":"beyond-puginism-9781904965565","title":"Beyond Puginism","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fleming H. Revell Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present work, based on the author's Pugin Lecture in Ramsgate in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeptember 2017, addresses a little-explored area of Pugin studies, namely the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eway in which, during the final years of his life, AWN Pugin's ecclesiology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderwent a significant development, possible reasons for which will be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eidentified. After the opening of St Giles', Cheadle in 1846, Pugin started to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperiment with various forms of asymmetry, and began to relax his earlier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrict compliance with the rubrical requirements of the Use of Sarum - a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMediaeval variant of the Roman Rite. Indeed, in the year before his death, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePugin actually admitted that he had perpetrated 'great errors in former\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etime', maintaining that '... our churches should now combine all the beauty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof antiquity with every convenience that modern discovery has suggested, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor altered ecclesiastical discipline requires.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was an implicit admission that his earlier conflation of Gothic with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Use of Sarum ('Puginism') had been flawed, and that Gothic could\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindeed be validly used in the service of the Tridentine Rite that was then\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enormative in England, and he actually made proposals as to how the 'all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseeing, all hearing' liturgy that the Council of Trent had sought to promote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecould be facilitated by reconfiguring the chancels of Gothic churches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePugin's untimely death in 1852, however, prevented him from personally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimplementing this paradigm shift, although intimations of it can be detected\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein his own church of St Augustine in Ramsgate, which was opened in 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA detailed exposition of this important and fascinating topic, chronicling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePugin's own attempt to move beyond 'Puginism', is the subject of this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fleming H. Revell Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889741250711,"sku":"9781904965565","price":1906.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781904965565.webp?v=1781177576","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beyond-puginism-9781904965565","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}