Coventry Cathedral: Art and Architecture in Post-War Britain

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
• CONTENTS vii
• List of Color Plates ix
• LIST OF BLACK AND WHITE PLATES xi
• ABBREVIATIONS xix
• Introduction 1
• Part I. Architecture and Politics 5
• 1 The Cathedral and the City: The Blitz, Civic Ideology And Reconstruction 7
• 2 The Cathedral Project 1940-1947 22
• 3 'towards a New Cathedral'? 37
• Part II. The Creative Process 69
• 4 Modernism and Tradition: The Genesis of Spence's Competition Design 71
• 5 The Competition Design Refined, 1951-1954 81
• 6 The Architect and the Artist 102
• Part III. Design into Building 131
• 7 The Licence to Build, 1954 133
• 8 The Turning-Point, 1954-1956 141
• 9 The Design Recast, 1956-1958 148
• Pa IV. For and Function 193
• 10 The Modern Church 195
• 11 Provost and Architect 206
• 12 The Cathedral Completed, 1960-1962 216
• 13 The Cathedral and the Post-War World: Austerity and Triumphalism 243
• Conclusion 254
• APPENDIX: DONATIONS 276
• BIBLIOGRAPHY 278
• INDEX 283

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