5184 x 3456 px | 43,9 x 29,3 cm | 17,3 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
5. September 2013
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The Church of St John was built to the designs of the architect Francis Octavius Bedford in 1824. it is built in the Greek style inspired by Bedford’s background as a well-respected Greek scholar and antiquarian. Bedford’s churches were fiercely criticised by contemporary critics at a time when the tide was turning away from the Greek revival towards Gothic. St John’s however gained more critical appreciation mainly because of its fine spire which used classical detail to build up a more traditional English parish church shape. St John’s is an important building in the context of the development of church design in the nineteenth century. It marks the point at which a powerful reaction set in against big square preaching boxes, and a movement started towards a return to ‘Christian’ architecture and the belief that Gothic was the only fit style for worship.