The bibliography focuses most specifically on the historical context leading up to and including Protestant churches in the contemporary U.S. and their predecessors in Britain and Europe.
General Introductions and Surveys
- Butler, John F. “Nineteen Centuries of Christian Missionary Architecture.”
- Kieckhefer, Richard (wiki). Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (Oxford 2004). Reviews TT, Buggeln, Gallegos, Green, Ivey, Jensen (1 2), Sheldrake, Parker, Pfaff, Callender, Williams
- Kilde, Jeanne Halgren (page). Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture (Oxford, 2008). Reviews Pfaff, McAlpine
- Seasoltz, A Sense of the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Art (Continuum, 2005) Reviews Brown, Garrett, Leigh, Parker
- Stancliffe, David. The Lion Companion to Church Architecture (Lion, 2008)
- Turner, Harold W. From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship (De Gruyter, 1979) rev. Ferguson
- Walter, Nigel. The Gate of Heaven: How Church Buildings Speak of God (Grove, 2011)
- White, James F. Protestant Worship and Church Architecture: Theological and Historical Considerations (Wipf and Stock, 2003 [Oxford, 1964]) Reviews Hageman, Hersey
- Yates, Nigel (THES. Wiki). Liturgical Space: Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000 (Ashgate, 2008) Reviews ISA, MacLean, Moses, Williams
Studies by Time Period
Period: Early Christian and Byzantine
- Billings, Bradly S. “From House Church to Tenement Church: Domestic Space and the Development of Early Urban Christianity–The Example of Ephesus”
- Bowes, Kim “Early Christian Archaeology: A State of the Field”
- Bradshaw, Paul F. (wiki, ND)
- The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy (SPCK, 2002) Reviews Collins, Spinks
- Reconstructing Early Christian Worship (SPCK, 2012) Reviews Taylor, Jeanes, Morris
- Branham, “Sacred Space under Erasure in Ancient Synagogues and Early Churches”
- Crowfoot, Early Churches in Palestine rev. Conant
- Davies, The Origin and Development of Early Christian Church Architecture rev. Addleshaw, von Simson, Rice
- Doig, Liturgy and Architecture: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2017 [Ashgate, 2008]) Reviews Fulford, Luxford, Dickason, Lopez Arias
- Gerster, Churches in Rock, Early Christian Art in Ethiopia cf. Denison rev. Shane
- Jensen, Robin. Living Water: Images, Symbols and Settings of Early Christian Baptism (Brill, 2010)
- Koch, Early Christian art and architecture. An introduction rev. Elsner
- Lavin, “The House of the Lord: Aspects of the Role of Palace Triclinia in the Architecture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”
- Mackie, Early Christian Chapels in the West: Decoration, Function, and Patronage rev. Lucey
- Mathews, The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art rev. Peter Brown
- Milburn, Robert. Early Christian Art and Architecture rev. Kinney
- Nasrallah, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire rev. Verkerk, Paget, Lossl, Lewis
- Painter, K. S., ed. Churches Built in Ancient Times: Recent Studies in Early Christian Archaeology (Society of Antiquaries, 1964)
- Phillipson, David W. Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries cf. Heldman Wegssel rev. Pankhurst
- Richardson, Peter. City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East rev. Day
- Scully, Vincent. The Earth, the Temple and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture (2013 [1962]). cf. Blake rev. Thompson
- Sessa, Kristina. “‘Domus Ecclesiae‘: Rethinking a Category of ‘Ante-Pacem’ Christian Space.”
- Ward-Perkins, J. B. “Memoria, Martyr’s Tomb and Martyr’s Church.”
- White, Michael L. Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians rev. Bluestein Norris
- Wightman, G. J. Sacred Spaces: Religious Architecture in the Ancient World (Dudley, 2007). Review Stamper
- Yasin, Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community rev. Stevens, Day, Deliyannis, Safran
Period: Byzantine
- Armstrong, Gregory T. “Constantine’s Churches: Symbol and Structure.”
- Curcic, Slobodan. “Architectural Significance of Subsidiary Chapels in Middle Byzantine Churches.”
- Epstein, “Middle Byzantine Churches of Kastoria: Dates and Implications”
- Mathews, Thomas F.
- Gerstel,
- “Saint Eudokia and the Imperial Household of Leo VI”
- Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary rev. Barber
- Kostof, Spiro. Caves of God: The Monastic Environment of Byzantine Cappadocia cf. Restle rev. Shane
- Krautheimer, Richard
- and Slobodan Curcic, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (Yale, 1992). Review Kostof, Kleinbauer, Verdier
- “Introduction to an “Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture””
- et al, Corpus basilicarum christianarum Romae. The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV-IX Cent.) rev. Forsyth
- Mango, Byzantine Architecture rev. Mathews
- Nelson, Robert S. Hagia Sophia, 1850–1950: Holy Wisdom and the Modern Monument rev. van Zanten cf. Thomas, Gebhard, Rykwert, “Model, type, and the Great Church”
- Patricios, The sacred architecture of Byzantium. Art, liturgy and symbolism in early Christian churches rev. Carile Schibille
- Ruggieri, Byzantine Religious Architecture (582–867). Its history and structural elements rev. Shepard
- Smith, E. Baldwin. Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages rev. Milburn
- Smith, Janet Charlotte. “Form and Function of the Side Chambers of Fifth- and Sixth-Century Churches in Ravenna.”
- Walter, Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church rev. Mathews
- Weitzmann, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, The Icons, Vol. I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century rev. Spain
Period: Early Medieval
- Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory rev. Bitel Hourihane
- Conant, A Brief Commentary on Early Mediaeval Church Architecture with Especial Reference to Lost Monuments rev. Frankl
- Forsyth,
- “St. Martin’s at Angers and the Evolution of Early Mediaeval Church Towers”
- The Church of St. Martin at Angers rev. Krautheimer
- Gem, “Towards an Iconography of Anglo-Saxon Architecture”
- Hawkes, The Sandbach Crosses: Sign and Symbolism in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture rev. Mac Lean cf. Butler Taylor
- Henderson, The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland rev. Mac Lean
- Kleinbauer, “Zvart’nots and the Origins of Christian Architecture in Armenia” cf. d’Onofrio
- Krautheimer, “The Carolingian Revival of Early Christian Architecture” cf. Weisbach
- Maranci, “Building Churches in Armenia: Art at the Borders of Empire and the Edge of the Canon”
- McClendon, The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900 rev. Deliyannis
- Reed, Church architecture in early medieval Spain, c.700–c.1100 rev. Gem
Style: Romanesque
- Borg, Architectural Sculpture in Romanesque Provence rev. Glass
- Evans, The Romanesque Architecture of the Order of Cluny cf. Armi rev. Conant
- Fernie, “Three Romanesque Great Churches in Germany, France and England, and the Discipline of Architectural History”
- Horn, “Romanesque Churches in Florence: A Study in Their Chronology and Stylistic Development”
- Jonsdottir, “The Portal of Kilpeck Church: Its Place in English Romanesque Sculpture”
- Kendall, The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions rev. Mariaux
- Kubach, Romanesque Architecture
- Maxwell, “Pilgrimage and the Dynamics of Urbanism Reconsidered: Faubourg Architecture in Romanesque Aquitaine”
- Schaefer, “The Origin of the Two-Tower Façade in Romanesque Architecture”
- Whitehill, Spanish Romanesque Architecture of the Eleventh Century rev. Schapiro
Style: Gothic
- Ackerman, “”Ars Sine Scientia Nihil Est” Gothic Theory of Architecture at the Cathedral of Milan”
- Bony, The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed, 1250-1350 rev. Draper and French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries rev. Murray
- Branner, “Paris and the Origins of Rayonnant Gothic Architecture down to 1240” and review Colombier, Les Chantiers des cathedrales. review Henderson Chartres cf. Sanfacon
- Clark, “The First Flying Buttresses: A New Reconstruction of the Nave of Notre-Dame de Paris”
- Davis, “Splendor and Peril: The Cathedral of Paris, 1290-1350”
- Grodecki, Gothic Architecture rev. Ferguson
- James, “An Investigation into the Uneven Distribution of Early Gothic Churches in the Paris Basin, 1140-1240” cf. Sowers and The Contractors of Chartres rev. Murray
- Jung, “Beyond the Barrier: The Unifying Role of the Choir Screen in Gothic Churches”
- Lesser, George. Gothic Cathedrals and Sacred Geometry (Tiranti, 1957). rev. Branner
- Monckton, “Fit for a King? The Architecture of the Beauchamp Chapel”
- Neagley, “Elegant Simplicity: The Late Gothic Plan Design of St.-Maclou in Rouen”
- Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism rev. Bober
- Rudolph, “Inventing the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window: Suger, Hugh, and a New Elite Art”
- Quiney, “In Hoc Signo: The West Front of Lincoln Cathedral”
- Simson, Otto von (DAH). The Gothic cathedral: origins of Gothic architecture and the medieval concept of order (Princeton, 1988 [Harper & Row, 1964]) cf. Doig rev. Crosby, Weitzmann-Fiedler.
- Taylor, “The Technology of Transition: Sexpartite to Quadripartite Vaulting in High Gothic Architecture”
- Weiss, “Architectural Symbolism and the Decoration of the Ste.-Chapelle”
Period: Late Medieval
- Bangs, Church art and architecture in the Low Countries before 1566. rev. Jacobs, Gill
- Bayle, La Trinite de Caen rev. Herschman
- Bonde, Sheila. Fortress-churches of Languedoc. Architecture, religion, and conflict in the High Middle Ages. rev. Roach, Costen
- Boase, T.S.R. Castles and Churches of the Crusading Kingdom. rev. Folda
- Cross, Samuel Hazzard. Medieval Russian Churches (MAA, 1949) cf. Brumfield, Lazarev/Kitzinger Bucher rev. Hamilton, Hamlin
- Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. “The Cathedral: The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Construction.” rev. Weiss Christianson
- Fergusson, Architecture of Solitude. Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England cf. Freeman Stalley Robinson rev. McAleer
- Friedman, “St Chad’s Church, Stafford: A Young and Beautiful Virgin and Her Decayed and Doting Husband”
- Gilbert, “Brixworth and the English Basilica”
- Gillerman, “Cosmopolitanism and Campanilismo: Gothic and Romanesque in the Siena Duomo Facade”
- Hartt, The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal at San Miniato in Florence rev. Seymour
- Hazard, A History of the Crusades, IV: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States rev. Demus McGinn
- Hersey, Carl. “The Church of Saint-Martin at Tours (903-1150)”
- Hewett, English Cathedral Carpentry rev. Smith
- Hiscock, The White Mantle of Churches: Architecture, Liturgy, and Art around the Millennium rev. Pfaff, Freeman, Gameson, Hearn, Stalley
- Horn, “Two Timbered Mediaeval Churches of Cheshire: St. James and St. Paul at Marton and St. Oswald at Lower Peover”
- Kitzinger, The Mosaics of Monreale rev. Schapiro
- Koch, “The Early Christian Revival at S. Miniato al Monte: The Cardinal of Portugal Chapel”
- Kroesen, Justin and Regnerus Steensma, The Interior of the Medieval Village Church (Peeters, 2012) cf. Roosval
- Kinder, Terryl N. Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation cf. Hahn Kronig Waeber-Antiglio rev. Bruzelius, Lovatt, Gajewski
- Lillich, Meredith Parsons. Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture (vol. 1, 2, …5). rev. Gillerman
- Olympios, “Between St Bernard and St Francis: a Reassessment of the Excavated Church of Beaulieu Abbey, Nicosia”
- O’Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era rev. Jones
- Ousterhout, Robert.
- “Rebuilding the Temple: Constantine Monomachus and the Holy Sepulchre.”
- “Architecture as Relic and the Construction of Sanctity: The Stones of the Holy Sepulchre.”
- cf. Wright, “An Historical and Ecumenical Survey of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, with Notes on Its Significance for Anglicans”
- Platt, Colin. The Parish Churches of Medieval England (Secker & Warburg, 1981) cf. Cragoe.
- Powstenko, The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev cf. Boeck rev. Mango
- Romanini, L’architettura gotica in Lombardia rev. Krautheimer
- Scheyer, Ernst. “Henry Adams’ ‘Monte-Saint-Michel and Chartres.'”
- Steinke, “The Influence of English Decorated Style on the Continent: Saint James in Toruń and Lincoln Cathedral”
- Sternberg, Maximilian. Cistercian architecture and medieval society. rev. Stober
- Stoddard, The Facade of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, Its Influence on French Sculpture rev. Glass
- Sunderland, “The History and Architecture of the Church of St. Fortunatus at Charlieu in Burgundy”
- Sundt, “The Jacobin Church of Toulouse and the Origin of Its Double-Nave Plan”
- Williams, “San Isidoro in Leon: Evidence for a New History”
Period: Renaissance & Reformation
- Burroughs, “Greening Brunelleschi: Botticelli at Santo Spirito”
- Christensen, Art and the Reformation rev. Hults
- Coulton, Art and the Reformation rev. Dunlap
- Garvan, Anthony. “The Protestant Plain Style before 1630.”
- Hibbard, Blunt, Wittkower, Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580-1630 rev. Panofsky-Soergel
- Howard and Moretti, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice cf. Goy rev. Pentcheva
- Kavaler, “Nature and the Chapel Vaults at Ingolstadt: Structuralist and Other Perspectives”
- McAndrew, Venetian Architecture of the Early Renaissance rev. Pincus
- Ost, “Santa Margherita in Montefiascone: A Centralized Building Plan of the Roman Quattrocento” cf. Magnuson
- Lehmberg, Stanford E. The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society 1485-1603 cf. Felton rev. Friedman
- Scaglia, “Three Renaissance Drawings of Church Facades”
- Traeger, Renaissance und Religion: Die Kunst des Glaubens im Zeitalter Raphaels rev. Nagel
- Wilkinson, “Proportion in Practice: Juan de Herrera’s Design for the Façade of the Basilica of the Escorial”
- Wittkower,
- Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism rev. Ackerman
- Palladio and Palladianism rev. Sinding-Larsen
Period: 17th and 18th centuries: Protestant and Northern Europe
- Ali, Jason R. and Peter Cunich. “The Church East and West: Orienting the Queen Anne Churches, 1711-34.”
- Aspin, “‘Our Ancient Architecture’: Contesting Cathedrals in Late Georgian England”
- Briggs, Martin S. Puritan Architecture and Its Future (Lutterworth, 1946). rev. Middleton Budden
- Chatfield, Mark. Churches the Victorians Forgot (Moorland, 1989) Review Morgan
- Clarke, Basil Fulford Lowther. The Building of the Eighteenth-Century Church (SPCK, 1963).
- Drummond, Andrew Iandale. The Church Architecture of Protestantism: an Historical and Constructive Study (Edinburgh, 1934).
- Friedman, Terry.
- “Baroque into Palladian: The Designing of St Giles-in-the-Fields”
- “The Church of St. Peter-Le-Poer Reconsidered”
- The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain (Paul Mellon Centre, 2011) rev. Bowden Stamper
- Hemberg, Per Gustaf. Temples for Protestants: Studies in the Architectural Milieu of the Early Reformed Church and the Lutheran Church (Gothenburg, 2002). rev. Buggeln
- Guillery, “Suburban Models, or Calvinism and Continuity in London’s Seventeenth-Century Church Architecture”
- Parry, Graham. Glory, Laud and Honour: The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation (Boydell & Brewer, 2008). cf. Spicer Reviews Doll, Dyrness, Green, Perry, Tapsell
- Schless, Nancy Halverson. “Peter Harrison, the Touro Synagogue, and the Wren City Church.” Winterthur Portfolio 8 (1973): 187-200.
- Sekler, Wren and His Place in European Architecture rev. Whiffen
- Spicer, Andrew (academia)
- Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe (Manchester, 2007) Reviews Cameron, Frijhoff, Holder
- ed. Parish Churches in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2016). Afterword
- Sprunger, “Puritan Church Architecture and Worship in a Dutch Context”
- Stillman, Damie. “Church Architecture in Neo-Classical England.” cf. Turner
- Wakeling, “‘A Room Nearly Semi-Circular’: Aspects of the Theatre and the Church from Harrison to Pugin”
- Whiffen, Marcus. Stuart and Georgian Churches: The Architecture of the Church of England Outside London, 1603-1837 (Batsford, 1948)
- Yates, Nigel. Buildings, Faith and Worship: The Liturgical Arrangement of Anglican Churches 1600-1900 (Oxford, 1991) Reviews Burkhart, Cunningham, Doig, Forrester, White
Period: 17th and 18th centuries: Catholic and Southern Europe
- Dotson, Esther Gordon. J. B. Fischer von Erlach: Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era rev. Neville
- Fokker, “The First Baroque Church in Rome”
- Hager,
- Hall, Marcia B. and Tracy E. Cooper, eds. The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church (Cambridge, 2013) rev. Levy, Morgan, Mormando, Puglisi, Stroik
- Harries, Karsten. The Bavarian Rococo Church. rev. Heisner
- Hibbard, “The Early History of Sant’Andrea della Valle”
- Hitchcock, “The Schmuzers and the Rococo Transformation of Mediaeval Churches in Bavaria”
- Knox, “The Unified Church Interior in Baroque Italy: S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo”
- Krauß, Armin. Tempel und Kirche. Zur Ausbildung von Fassade und “portail” in der französischen Sakralarchitektur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Weimar, 2003) rev. Engelberg
- Marini, L’architettura barocca in Piemonte rev. Millon
- Sinding-Larsen, Christ in the Council Hall: Studies in the Religious Iconography of the Venetian Republic rev. Muraro
- Varriano,
- Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture rev. Ostrow
- “Martino Longhi the Younger and the Façade of San Giovanni Calibita in Rome”
Period: 19th Century
- Adams, “The Birth of a Style: Henry Hobson Richardson and the Competition Drawings for Trinity Church, Boston”
- Bullen, “The Romanesque Revival in Britain, 1800-1840: William Gunn, William Whewell, and Edmund Sharpe”
- Curran, Kathleen. The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange. rev. Kilde
- De Visser, John and Harold Kalman, Pioneer Churches (Norton, 1976)
- Goodfellow, G. L. M. “William Jay and the Albion Chapel.”
- Hitchcock, Early Victorian Architecture in Britain rev. Whiffen
- Kilde, Jeanne Halgren (wiki). When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 2002). Review Buggeln, Davis, Legg, Mohr (1, 2), Moore (1, 2, 3), Nelson
- Lounsbury, Carl.
- “God is in the Details: The Transformation of Ecclesiastical Architecture in Early Nineteenth-Century America,” in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture (2006) and Essays in Early American Architectural History: A View from the Chesapeake (Virginia, 2011) rev. Ellis
- “Anglican Church Design in the Chesapeake: English Inheritances and Regional Interpretations”
- Meeks, “Romanesque Before Richardson in the United States”
- O’Reilly, “Roman versus Romantic: Classical Roots in the Origins of a Roman Catholic Ecclesiology”
- Pierson, “Richard Upjohn and the American Rundbogenstil”
- Smith, Ryan K.
- “The Cross: Church Symbol and Contest in Nineteenth-Century America” Church History (Dec. 2001)
- Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century (North Carolina, 2006) rev. Mohr, Ayoub, Cleary, Ivey, Yates
- Steege, Gwen W. “The “Book of Plans” and the Early Romanesque Revival in the United States: A Study in Architectural Patronage.”
Period: 19th Century Gothic Revival
- Achilles, Rolf. “Neugotik: Brick Gothic in Germany, England, and the United States”
- Andrews, American Gothic: Its Origins, Its Trials, Its Triumphs rev. Maass
- Bernheimer, “Gothic Survival and Revival in Bologna”
- Bremner, G. A. Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c. 1840–1870 (Yale, 2012). rev. Barringer, Chowdhury, de Jong, Goodman, Grubiak, Ledger-Lomas, Lepine, Lewis, Sorensen
- Brooks, Chris and Andrew Saint, The Victorian Church: Architecture and Society (Manchester, 1995) rev. Williams
- Clarke, Basil Fulford Lowther.
- Anglican Cathedrals Outside the British Isles rev. Gowans
- Church builders of the nineteenth century: a study of the Gothic revival in England (SPCK, 1938)
- “Ecclesiastical Architecture”
- Downs, “America’s First “Medieval” Churches”
- Frew,
- Hall, Michael. “What Do Victorian Churches Mean? Symbolism and Sacramentalism in Anglican Church Architecture, 1850-1870.” JSAH 59:1 (Mar. 2000): 78-95.
- Maeyer, Jan de and Luc Verpoest, eds. Gothic Revival: Religion, Architecture and Style in Western Europe 1815-1914 (Leuven, 1997). cf. Davis
- Port, Michael Harry. Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (Spire, 2006 [SPCK, 1961]). cf. Carr Liscombe Review Gowans 1 2
- Raguin, Virginia Chieffo and Mary Ann Powers, eds., Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century, (Worcester: Holy Cross, 2002)
- Smart, C. M. Jr. Muscular Churches: Ecclesiastical Architecture of the High Victorian Period rev. Litvack
- Turner, “‘The Windows of this Church are of several Fashions’: Architectural Form and Historical Method in John Aubrey’s ‘Chronologia Architectonica'”
- Stanton, Phoebe B.
- Webster, Christopher
- ‘Temples… worthy of His presence’: The Early Publications of the Cambridge Camden Society (Spire, 2003) rev. Quiney, Tribe
- and Elliott, ‘A Church as it Should Be’: The Cambridge Camden Society and Its Influence (Shaun Tyas, 2000) cf. Banerjee
- White, James F. The Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival (Cambridge, 1979 [1962]). rev. Crook
- Whyte, William. “Sacred Space as Sacred Text: Church and Chapel Architecture in Victorian Britain.” in Sterrett and Thomas, eds., Sacred Text — Sacred Space: Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales (Brill, 2011): 247-266.
Period: 1900 to 1960
- Bruggink, Donald J.
- Christ and architecture: building Presbyterian/Reformed churches (Eerdmans, 1965).
- When Faith Takes Form: Contemporary Churches of Architectural Integrity in America (Eerdmans, 1971).
- Buggeln, Gretchen T.
- The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America (Minnesota, 2015). Introduction. Reviews Grubiak, Kim, McWilliams, Sizer
- “Form, Function, and Failure in Postwar Christian Education Buildings,” in Morgan, ed., The Matter of Belief (Routledge, 2009): 193-213.
- Christ-Janer, Albert and Mary Mix Foley. Modern Church Architecture: A Guide to the Form and Spirit of 20th-Century Religious Buildings (McGraw-Hill, 1962)
- Debuyst, Frederic. Modern Architecture and Christian Celebration (John Knox, 1968) rev. Cuming
- Grubiak, Margaret M.
- “The Danforth Chapel Program on the Public American Campus,” Buildings & Landscapes 19 (fall 2012): 77-96 (alternate)
- “Educating the Moral Scientist: The Chapels at I.I.T. and M.I.T.,” Arris 18 (2007): 1-14 cf. Fox, Bender
- White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960 (Notre Dame, 2014). Reviews Ahn, Bains, Boden, Buggeln, DeBerg, Do, Kemeny, Ousley, Smith
- Heathcote, Edwin and Iona Spens. Church Builders of the Twentieth Century (Academy Press, 1997). Review Moffatt
- Heynickx, “Conceptual Debts: Modern Architecture and Neo-Thomism in Postwar America”
- Jantzen, “Church-Building in Hitler’s Germany: Berlin’s Martin-Luther-Gedächtniskirche as a Reflection of Church-State Relations”
- Kulic, Vladimir et al., eds. Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities (Texas, 2014). Includes:
- Robert Proctor, “Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Two Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Britain”
- Timothy Parker, “‘Humanly Sublime Tensions’: Luigi Moretti’s Chiesa del Concilio (1965-1970)”
- Richard Kieckhefer, “Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture”
- Maguire, Robert Alfred and Keith A. Murray. Modern Churches of the World (Studio Vista, 1965).
- Proctor, Robert. Building the Modern Church: Roman Catholic Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975 (Routledge, 2016) Review Stroik, Young
- Kappel, Kai. Memento 1945? Kirchenbau aus Kriegsruinen und Trümmersteinen (Munich, 2008) rev. Falser
- Smith, G. E. Kidder. The New Churches of Europe (Architectural Press, 1964). Review Cornford
- Stamp, “Sacred Architecture in a Secular Century”
- Struck, Wolfgang Jean. European Church Architecture 1900-1950 (Prestel, 2006)
- Weber and Methuen. “The Architecture of Faith under National Socialism: Lutheran Church Building(s) in Braunschweig, 1933–1945.”
Period: 1960 to present
- Denysenko, Nicholas. Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America (Notre Dame, 2017)
- Gieselmann, Contemporary Church Architecture
- Harwood, “Liturgy and Architecture: The Development of the Centralised Eucharistic Space”
- Heathcote, Edwin and Laura Moffatt, Contemporary Church Architecture (Wiley, 2007) Review Stroka
- Hübner and Helmut Braun, eds. Evangelischer Kirchenbau in Bayern seit 1945 (Berlin, 2010), rev. Wiener
- Hurley, Richard and Wilfrid Campbell. Contemporary Irish Church Architecture (Dublin, 1985). Review McParland
- Loveland, Anne C. and Otis Wheeler. From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History (Missouri, 2003). Review Beaupre, Buggeln
- Richardson, Phyllis. New Sacred Architecture (Laurence King, 2004) Review Moffatt
- Stock, Wolfgang Jean. European Church Architecture 1950-2000 (Prestel, 2002) (review Moffatt)
- Wittmann-Englert, Kerstin. Zelt, Schiff und Wohnung. Kirchenbauten der Nachkriegsmoderne (Lindenberg 2006) rev. Lieb
- Yates, Nigel. “Church Architecture” in McLeod, ed., The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 9 (2006): 607-617.
Geographical Studies
Europe
- Addleshaw, George William Outram and Frederick Etchells. The Architectural Setting of Anglican Worship (Faber & Faber, 1948) rev. Clebsch
- Buxton, David. The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe. An Introductory Survey rev. Goss
- Cunningham, Stones of Witness: Church Architecture and Function (Sutton, 1999). cf. Mears Review Lehmberg, MacCulloch
- Cruden, Scottish Medieval Churches rev. McAleer
- Delbeke and Morel, “Metaphors in Action: Early Modern Church Buildings as Spaces of Knowledge”
- Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 rev. Thurlby
- Galloway, Peter.
- The Cathedrals of Ireland (Belfast, 1992) also cf. Anderson
- The Cathedrals of Scotland (Scottish Cultural Press, 2000)
- Hay, George. The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches 1560-1843 (Oxford, 1957). Reviews Addleshaw, Stevenson
- Hugh, Parish Churches: their Architectural Development in England rev. Dugmore
- Lavin, The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600 rev. Baskins
- Lindsay, Ian Gordon. The Scottish Parish Kirk (Saint Andrew, 1960). Review Grant
- Little, Bryan D. G. Catholic churches since 1623: A study of Roman Catholic churches in England and Wales from penal times to the present decade (Hale, 1966)
- Martin, Christopher. A Glimpse of Heaven: Catholic Churches of England and Wales (English Heritage, 2006) rev. O’Donnell
- Pettersson et al. Finnish Wooden Churches rev. Korvenmaa
- Quash, Ben, Aaron Rosen and Chloe Reddaway, eds., Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion (I.B. Tauris) Review Spalding
- Savidge, Alan. The Parsonage in England: its History and Architecture rev. Dugmore
United States and Canada
- Egbert, Donald Drew and Charles Moore, “Religious Expression in American Architecture,” in Smith and Jamison, eds., Religious Perspectives in American Culture (Princeton, 1961), 361-411.
- Cutler, Anthony. “The Tyranny of Hagia Sophia: Notes on Greek Orthodox Church Design in the United States.”
- Gowans, Alan.
- Church Architecture in New France rev. Arthur, Morisset, Wilson
- “Paradigmatic Social Function in Anglican Church Architecture of the Fifteen Colonies”
- “Thomas Baillairgé and the Québecois Tradition of Church Architecture”
- Hamlin,
- “The Greek Revival in America and Some of Its Critics”
- Greek Revival Architecture in America; Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life Prior to the War rev. Meeks
- Hayes, Bartlett. Tradition Becomes Innovation: Modern Religious Architecture in America rev. Morgan
- Kennedy, Roger G. American Churches (Stewart, Tabori 2002). Reviews Goldberger, Morgan
- Magrill, A “Commerce of Taste”: Church Architecture in Canada, 1867-1914. rev. Iron, Westfall
- Morgan, William. American Country Churches rev. Callender
- Nelson, Louis, ed.
- American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces (Indiana, 2006). Review Biles, Stroik
- “Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture.”
- Richardson, Peter and Douglas Richardson. Canadian Churches: An Architectural History (Firefly, 2007). Review Irwin, Simmins, Thurlby
- Rose, Harold Wickliffe. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America rev. Donnelly
- Williams, Peter.
- Houses of God: Region, Religion and Architecture in the United States (Illinois, 2000). Reviews Lounsbury, Hull, Hutchison, White, Winner
- Bibliography: “The Built Environment of American Religion: The State of the Art” (1998)
U.S. — New England
- Benes, Peter.
- Buggeln, Gretchen. Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut’s Churches, 1790 to 1840 (UPNE, 2003) rev. Brekus, Emlen, Ford, Hambrick-Stowe, Kilde, Nelson, Reinberger
- Donnelly, Marian Card. The New England Meeting Houses of the Seventeenth Century (Wesleyan, 1968). rev. Powell
- Downing and Scully, The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915 cf. Hitchcock rev. Egbert
- Kelly, J. Frederick. Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2 vols. (Columbia, 1948).
- Moore, “‘To Hold Communion with Nature and the Spirit-World’: New England’s Spiritualist Camp Meetings, 1865-1910”
- Pastor, Lori Renee. “Sanctity of Place: The Development of Puritan Religious Architecture in America.” (B.A., Dallas, 2002).
- Sinnott, Edmund Ware. Meetinghouse & church in early New England (McGraw-Hill, 1963) rev. Donnelly
- Sweeney, Kevin M. “Meetinghouses, Town Houses, and Churches: Changing Perceptions of Sacred and Secular Space in Southern New England, 1720-1850.” Winterthur Portfolio (spring 1993), 59-93.
U.S. — Mid-Atlantic
- Butler, David. “Quaker Meeting Houses in America and England: Impressions and Comparisons,” Quaker History (fall 1990), 93-104 cf. McLendon, Gawne
- Driskel, “By the Light of Providence: The Glory Altarpiece at St. Paul’s Chapel, New York City”
- Jopling, Carol. Churches of Somerset County, Maryland: Evolving Church Architecture in the Changing Rural Landscape of Somerset County, Maryland, 1660-1993, (Annapolis, 2000) rev. Geissler
- Lavoie, Catherine. “Quaker Beliefs and Practices and the Eighteenth-Century Development of the Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley,” in Lapsansky and Verplanck, eds. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, (Pennsylvania, 2003), 156-87, 338-47.
- Minta, Anna. Staatsbauten und Sakralarchitektur in Washington/DC: Stilkonzepte patriotischer Baukunst (Berlin, 2015) rev. Depkat
- Moss, Roger W. Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, 2004). Reviews Buggeln, Chorpenning (1 2), Gallery, Smith
- Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present (Philadelphia: Yearly Meeting, 2002)
- Svenson, Sally E. Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building (North Country, 2006)
U.S. — Midwest
- Collum, Marla O., ed. Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship (Wayne State, 2012) cf. Ferry rev. Ford
- Crews, Clyde F. A Benediction of Place: Historic Catholic Sacred Sites of Kentucky and Southern Indiana (Bellarmine, 2002) rev. Burleigh
- Gyrisco, “East Slav Identity and Church Architecture in Minneapolis, Minnesota”
- Hampton, “German Gothic in the Midwest: The Parish Churches of Franz Georg Himpler and Adolphus Druiding”
- Lane, Chicago Churches and Synagogues rev. Karlowicz
- Fiorentinos, Panos. Ecclesia: Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis (Kantyli, 2004) review Powers
- Gochenour, Sharon J. “Witness to the Light: The Evolution of Church Sanctuary Design & Standards of Comfort in the Last Century in Harrison County, Iowa.” B.S., M.I.T., 2010.
- Peterson, Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish rev. Kilde
U.S. — Southern
- Hendricks, ““And Will You There a City Build”: The Moravian Congregation Town and the Creation of Salem, North Carolina”
- Jacoby, Mary Moore, ed. The Churches of Charleston and the Lowcountry rev. Severens
- Lancaster, “Some Octagonal Forms in Southern Architecture”
- McKee, “St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, 1752-1762: Some Notes on Materials and Construction”
- McInnis, “Conflating Past and Present in the Reconstruction of Charleston’s St. Philip’s Church”
- Rutledge, “The Second St. Philip’s, Charleston, 1710-1835”
- McAllister, James. “Architecture and Change in the Diocese of Virginia,” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (September 1976), 297-323.
- Nelson, Louis.
- “Anglican Church Building and Local Context in Early Jamaica”
- “Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina,” Winterthur Portfolio (winter 2007), 203-37.
- The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina (UNC, 2008) cf. Linder rev. Smith, Beasley, Westfall
- Owen, Christopher. “By Design: The Social Meaning of Methodist Church Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly (summer 1991), 221-53. cf. Sampson
- Patrick, James. “Ecclesiological Gothic in the Antebellum South,” Winterthur Portfolio (summer 1980), 117-38.
- Upton, Dell. Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (Yale, 2007 [MIT, 1986]) cf. Mason revs. Billings, Nichols, Sachs, White, Zimmerman
- Wilson, Samuel Jr. “Religious Architecture in French Colonial Louisiana”
Western North America: Plains, Southwest, West Coast
- Cleary, Richard. “Texas Gothic, French Accent: The Architecture of the Roman Catholic Church in Antebellum Texas,” JSAH (March 2007), 60-83.
- Dezurko, “Early Kansas Churches”
- Downs, Barry. Sacred Places: British Columbia’s Early Churches rev. Layman
- Hafertepe, Kenneth. “Houses of Worship: German-Texan Churches.” in The Material Culture of German Texans (TAMU, 2016): 349-391.
- Myers, Lois E. and Rebecca Sharpless, Rock Beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas (TAMU, 2003). Reviews Buggeln, Francaviglia, Montgomery
- Pearson, Early Churches of Washington State rev. Layman
- Robinson, Willard M. Reflections of Faith: Houses of Worship in the Lone Star State rev. Fox
- Viellette, Early Indian Village Churches rev. Segger
Spanish Colonial North America
- Bailey, Gauvin Alexander
- Early, Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States rev. Hafertepe
- Edgerton, Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artists in Colonial Mexico rev. Pratt, Baird
- Gasparini, La arquitectura colonial en Venezuela rev. Markman
- Graham, Maya Christians and Their Churches in Sixteenth-Century Belize. rev. Restall
- Hewett, Mission Monuments of New Mexico rev. Zimmern
- Junípero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions rev. Mitchem
- Kubler, George.
- Mexican architecture of the sixteenth century, rev. McAndrew
- The religious architecture of New Mexico in the colonial period and since the American occupation (UNM, 1990). rev. Miller 1940 edition rev. Newcomb, Swift 1 2
- Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain rev. Peterson, Arias, Cervantes, Edgerton
- McAndrew, The Open-air Churches of Sixteenth-century Mexico: Atrios, Posas, Open Chapels, and Other Studies rev. Kubler
- Quirarte, Jacinto. The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions rev. Hafertepe, Cleary
- Sanford, The Story of Architecture in Mexico rev. McAndrew
Asia
- Arrington, Anita. “Recasting the Image: Celso Costantini and the Role of Sacred Art and Architecture in the Indigenization of the Chinese Catholic Church, 1922–1933.”
- Prip-Moeller, A Fourteenth Century Church in China, rev. Lowrie
- Takenaka, Masako (wiki). The Place Where God Dwells: An Introduction to Church Architecture in Asia (WCC, 1995) review
- Washington, Garrett. “Religious Spaces, Erecting Secular Identities: Tokyo Protestant Churches, 1880-1923.” Ph.D., Purdue, 2010.
Individual Architects and Buildings
Architects and Buildings: Ancient and Medieval
- Adams, “The Ancient Church at Megiddo: The Discovery and an Assessment of its Significance”
- Arbeiter, Achim. Alt-St. Peter in Geschichte und Wissenschaft rev. Lloyd
- Ascher, “The Church and the Piazza: Reflections on the South Side of the Church of S. Domenico Maggiore in Naples”
- Brenk, Die frühchristlichen Mosaiken in S. Maria Maggiore zu Rom rev. Heuser
- Crook, “The Restoration of the Temple Church: Ecclesiology and Recrimination”
- Crossley, “The Nave of Stone Church in Kent”
- Goodson, “Material memory: rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome”
- Griffith-Jones, The Temple Church in London. History, architecture, art. rev. Levis, Draper
- Kostof, Spiro. The Orthodox Baptistery of Ravenna (Yale, 1965) rev. Heuser, Haworth
- Kreytenberg, Der Dom zu Florenz, cf. Haines rev. Trachtenberg
- Markus, “The South Aisle and Chantry in the Parish Church of St Bridget, Brigham”
- McAleer,
- “The Romanesque Transept and Choir Elevations of Tewkesbury and Pershore”
- Rochester cathedral, 604–1540. An architectural history. rev. Pfaff, Fernie
- Miele, “Gothic Sign, Protestant Realia: Templars, Ecclesiologists and the Round Churches at Cambridge and London”
- Mills, “A Group of Catalan Fourteenth Century Churches” cf. Steese
- Nickson, Tom. Toledo Cathedral: Building Histories in Medieval Castile rev. Foster
- Reeve, Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy, and Reform rev. Rowe
- Tanner, Marie. Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Renaissance (Turnhout, 2012) rev. Marder
- Trachtenberg, The Campanile of Florence Cathedral, “Giotto’s Tower” rev. Bucher
- Tronzo, ed. St. Peter’s in the Vatican cf. Mainstone McClendon Tronzo rev. Bosman, Levy
- Visser, Margaret M. The Geometry of Love: Space, Time and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (HarperCollins, 2012 [2001]). Interview Mars Hill. Review Warner. List of rapturous reviews. First chapter
- Weigel, George. Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (Basic, 2012) rev. McCloskey
- Woodman, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral. cf. Hearn rev. Brooke
Architects and Buildings: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo
- Alonso Ruiz, “A Fifteenth-Century Plan of the Cathedral of Seville”
- Anderson, Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition rev. Van Eck
- Borsook, Francesco Sassetti and Ghirlandaio at Santa Trinita, Florence: History and Legend in a Renaissance Chapel rev. Covi
- Bury, “The “Borrominesque” Churches of Colonial Brazil”
- Colvin, “The Church of St Mary Aldermary and Its Rebuilding after the Great Fire of London”
- Connors, Joseph “Borromini and Italian Urbanism”
- Crepaldi, La Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Torino rev. Millon
- Davies, “The Madonna delle Carceri in Prato and Italian Renaissance Pilgrimage Architecture”
- Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere. “Hawksmoor’s “Basilica after the Primitive Christians”: Architecture and Theology.”
- Eckstein, Nicholas. Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence (Yale, 2015) rev. Agoston, James
- Guerra, Andrea and Michael Haggerty. “Movable Façades: Palladio’s Plan for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and Its Successive Vicissitudes.”
- Hall, Renovation and Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Sta. Maria Novella and Sta. Croce, 1565-1577 cf. Arthur rev. Kirwin
- Hart, Vaughan. “Inigo Jones‘s Site Organization at St. Paul’s Cathedral: ‘Ponderous Masses Beheld Hanging in the Air.'” cf. Whinney
- Herz, Alexandra. “Borromini, S. Ivo, and Prudentius.”
- Hill, Michael. “Practical and Symbolic Geometry in Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.”
- Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. “The Brothers Asam and the Beginnings of Bavarian Rococo Church Architecture: Part 1: Through the Early 1720s. Part 2: From the Early 1720s to the mid-1730s.” cf. Heisner, Sauermost
- Hopkins, Andrew.
- “The Influence of Ducal Ceremony on Church Design in Venice”
- “Plans and Planning for S. Maria della Salute, Venice”
- Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture rev. Heinrichs
- Howard, Deborah. “Venice between East and West: Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Palladio’s Church of the Redentore.”
- Jeffery, Paul.
- Keene et al. St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 cf. Crayford rev. Williams, Bancroft
- Lavin, Bernini at Saint Peter’s: The Pilgrimage rev. Mormando
- Lehmann, “The Basilica Aemilia and S. Biagio at Montepulciano”
- Lewine, “Vignola’s Church of Sant’Anna de’ Palafrenieri in Rome”
- Massing, Jean Michael and Nicolette Zeeman, King’s College Chapel 1515-2015: Art, Music and Religion in Cambridge (Brepols, 2015) Rev. Prud’homme
- Metcalf, Priscilla. “Boston before Bulfinch: Harrison’s King’s Chapel.”
- Meek, Harold Alan. Guarino Guarini and His Architecture (Yale, 1988) rev. Klaiber, Del Pesco, Pollak, Sbacchi cf. Passanti Goetting, Morrogh
- Morel and Germonprez, “A Cornerstone in Architectural History: The Dedication of St. Peter’s Abbey Church, Ghent, 1629”
- Ostrow, Steven. Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore rev. Hills
- Otto, Christian F. Space into Light: The Churches of Balthasar Neumann (MIT, 1972). rev. Muller, also cf. Coolidge, Reuther, Teufel
- Rosenthal, The Cathedral of Granada. A Study in the Spanish Renaissance rev. Taylor
- Scott, John Beldon. “S. Ivo alla Sapienza and Borromini’s Symbolic Language.”
- Sedlmayr, Die Architektur Borrominis rev. Diamond
- Soo, Lydia M. Wren’s “Tracts” on Architecture and Other Writings. rev. Cast
- Vanderpool, James Grote. “The Restoration of St. Luke’s, Smithfield, Virginia.”
- Wasserman, “Giacomo della Porta’s Church for the Sapienza in Rome and Other Matters Relating to the Palace”
- Wind, “Sant’Andrea al Quirinale and the Sundial”
- Worsley, “Nicholas Hawksmoor: A Pioneer Neo-Palladian?”
- Yonan, “Material transformations: thinking about objects and spaces at the Wieskirche”
Architects and Buildings: 19th Century
- Allibone, Jill. Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture (Lutterworth, 1988) rev. Robinson, Frew and cf. VictorianWeb, Wiki
- Althofer, Der Architekt Karl Siebold (1854-1937). Zur Geschichte des evangelischen Kirchenbaues in Westfalen rev. Hope
- Baily, “St Hugh’s Church at Lincoln”
- Burman, “‘A Stern Thinker and Most Able Constructor’: Philip Webb, Architect”
- Burton and Pedersen, “Comparing Words with Works: A Study of Pugin’s St. Augustine’s Church”
- Carr, Gerald R.
- Crook, J. Mordaunt.
- DeStefano, “John Carroll, the Amplitude Apologetic and the Baltimore Cathedral”
- Durkin, Mary-Cabrini. America’s First Cathedral (Signe, 2007) review Nielsen
- Frew, “Gothic is English: John Carter and the Revival of the Gothic as England’s National Style”
- Greiff, Constance M. John Notman, Architect 1810-1865 rev. Danzer, Morgan
- Grimes, Brendan. Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: The Church Architecture of Patrick Byrne (2009) rev. Stroka
- Hall, Michael.
- “Emily Meynell Ingram and Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffordshire: A Study in Patronage”
- “The Rise of Refinement: G. F. Bodley’s All Saints, Cambridge, and the Return to English Models in Gothic Architecture of the 1860s”
- George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (Yale, 2014) rev. Braesel, Brownlee, ISA, Lewis,
- cf. Bremner, “Out of Africa: G. F. Bodley, William White, and the Anglican Mission Church of St. Philip, Grahamstown, 1857-67”
- Hannah, “St Sophia’s Church, Galston: ‘The Vast Space of the Interior'”
- Hill, “Pugin’s Churches”
- Howell, “Newman’s Church at Littlemore”
- Jackson, Neil
- “Christ Church, Streatham, and the Rise of Constructional Polychromy”
- “James Wild, Egypt, and St John’s Church, Hampstead: A Postscript to Christ Church, Streatham”
- “Clarity or Camouflage? The Development of Constructional Polychromy in the 1850s and Early 1860s”
- “The Un-Englishness of G. E. Street’s Church of St James-the-Less”
- Landy, The Architecture of Minard Lafever, rev. Morrison
- Lochhead, A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival rev. Sundt
- McFarland, Elizabeth Ann. “The Invisible Text: Reading Between the Lines of Frank Wills‘s Treatise, Ancient English Ecclesiastical Architecture.” M.A., Cornell, 2007.
- McKay, “St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Toronto: Byzantium versus Modernity”
- Millon, Judith Rice. St. Paul’s within the Walls, Rome: A Building History and Guide, 1870-1980 rev. Walker and cf. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. “G. E. Street in the 1850s.”
- Morgan, William. The Almighty Wall: The Architecture of Henry Vaughan rev. Middleton
- Promey, Sally M. Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” at the Boston Public Library cf. Kingsbury rev. Fryd Rosenberg
- Quiney, Anthony. John Loughborough Pearson (Yale, 1979) review Brownlee and cf. wiki
- Regan, Brian. Gothic Pride: The Story of Building a Great Cathedral in Newark (Rivergate, 2012) rev. O’Malley
- Skinner, “Drawing from an Indigenous Tradition? George Gilbert Scott’s First Design for Christchurch Cathedral, 1861-62” cf. Stamp Stamp
- Smith, Christine. St. Bartholomew’s Church in the City of New York cf. Chorley, Preston rev. Shand-Tucci
- Stebbins, Theodore, Jr. “Richardson and Trinity Church: The Evolution of a Building.” cf. Meyer, Weinberg
- Sturges, “Renwick, Rodrigue and the Architecture of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, N.Y.C”
- Symondson, Anthony and Stephen Arthur Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper: An Introduction to His Life and Work, With Complete Gazzetteer (Spire, 2007). Reviews Alderman, Doll, Williams, ISA and cf. Howse, wiki, VictorianWeb,
- Thompson, Paul.
- “All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street, Reconsidered”
- William Butterfield (Routledge, 1971). Review Crook and cf. Harwood, Howell (alternate), VictorianWeb, Victorian Studies, Worsley
- Toker, Franklin.
- “Gothic Architecture by Remote Control: An Illustrated Building Contract of 1340”
- “A Baptistery below the Baptistery of Florence”
- The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal: An Architectural History rev. Richardson, Kalman
- Upjohn, Everard. Richard Upjohn: Architect and Churchman rev. Morrison
- Upjohn, Richard. Upjohn‘s Rural Architecture rev. Landau cf. Chorley Hull
Architects and Buildings: 1900 to 1950
- Anthony, Ethan. The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office (Norton, 2007) rev. Alderman, Bischof, Doll, Lewis cf. McCready
- Bagley, Julie Arens. “Dallas as Region: Mark Lemmon‘s Gothic Revival Highland Park Presbyterian Church.” (M.A., North Texas, 2004).
- Behrens, Sabine. Norddeutsche Kirchenbauten des Historismus. Die Sakralarchitektur Hugo Groothoffs 1851-1918 (Kiel 2006). rev. Engelberg-Dočkal
- Boyle, Dia. Stone and Glass: The Meaning of the Cathedral of Saint Paul (2000) rev. Dietz
- Buggeln, Gretchen T.
- “Architecture as Community Service: West Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware,” in Morgan and Promey, eds. The Visual Culture of American Religions, (California, 2001), 87-101. cf. Hoffecker
- “Elegance and Sensibility in the Calvinist Tradition: The First Congregational Church of Hartford, Connecticut,” in Finney, ed. Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition (Eerdmans, 1999): 429-456.
- Butler, “The Anglo-Indian Architect Walter Sykes George (1881-1962): a Modernist Follower of Lutyens”
- George, Paul S. The Gesu in Miami: A Story of God’s People in a Subtropical Metropolis, 1896–2006. rev. Sicius
- Geva, Anat. Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form and Building Technology (Routledge, 2012) Review Crosbie
- Harwood and Foster, “Places of Christian Worship 1914-1990: A Selection of Christian Places of Worship”
- Hensbergen, Gijs van. Gaudi: A Biography (Harper, 2003). Mars Hill. Rev. Bayley, Glancey, list of reviews
- McCarthy, Christine. “Against ‘Churchianity’: Edmund Anscombe’s Suburban Church Designs”
- Oberg, Charlotte. “Ralph Adams Cram: Last Knight of the Gothic Quest” in Boos, ed., History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism (1982).
- Shand-Tucci, Douglas.
- Church Building in Boston 1720-1970 with an Introduction to the Work of Ralph Adams Cram and the Boston Gothicists rev. Morgan, Floyd
- Ralph Adams Cram: American Medievalist (Boston Public Library, 1975). rev. Conant
- Boston Bohemia 1881-1900. Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture, vol. 1 (Massachusetts, 1995) rev. Kendrick, Wrenn
- Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect’s Four Quests: Medieval, Modernist, American, Ecumenical rev. Williams, Betsky
- cf. Fergusson, “Medieval Architectural Scholarship in America, 1900-1940: Ralph Adams Cram and Kenneth John Conant”
- cf. Cram, My Life in Architecture rev. Millette
- Siry, Joseph M.
- Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, 1996) rev. Balmer, Sokol. Introduction.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple and Architecture for Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885-1909” cf. Williams
- “Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Annie M. Pfeiffer Chapel for Florida Southern College: Modernist Theology and Regional Architecture,” JSAH 63:4 (Dec. 2004): 498-539.
- Thomas, Christopher A. “A High Sense of Calling: Joseph Connolly, A.W. Holmes, and their Buildings for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1885-1935.” RACAR 13:2 (1986)
- Thomas, John “The ‘Beginnings of a Noble Pile’: Liverpool Cathedral’s Lady Chapel (1904-10)”
- Tselos, “Romantic Expressionism and the Modern Church”
- Tucker, Gregory W. America’s Church: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (OSV, 2000) rev. Scheidt
- Tweed, Thomas A. America’s Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation’s Capital, (Oxford, 2011) rev. Pasquier, Portier
- Ward, “Merseyside Churches in a Modern Idiom: Francis Xavier Verlade & Bernard Miller”
Architects and Buildings: 1950 to present
- Asojo, “The Influence of Indigenous Forms, Art, and Symbols on Sacred Spaces: A Study of Two Catholic Churches in Nigeria“
- Birksted, J. K. An Architecture of Ineloquence: Jose Luis Sert’s Carmel de la Paix (Ashgate, 2013) Reviews Crosbie, Shisley
- Borland, Amy. “Unexpected Modern: Valparaiso University’s Chapel of the Resurrection.” docomomo-us
- Botta, Mario. “The Church at Mogno-Fusio”
- Campbell, “Towards a New Cathedral: The Competition for Coventry Cathedral 1950-51”
- Clausen, Meredith. Spiritual Spaces: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi (Washington, 1992). revs. Arnheim, Eaton, Ritz
- Dixon, John W. Jr. “The Iconic Architecture of Rudolf Schwarz: An Essay on Architectural and Theological Method”
- Garofalo, Lynn and McInturf, “Korean Presbyterian Church of New York”
- Lehmberg, Stanford. Churches for the Southwest: The Ecclesiastical Architecture of John Gaw Meem (Norton, 2005) rev. Crowe
- Maguire, “Continuity and Modernity in the Holy Place”
- Rubin, William S. Modern Sacred Art and the Church of Assy rev. Lindsay
- Samuel, Flora
- “The Representation of Mary in the Architecture of Le Corbusier‘s Chapel at Ronchamp”
- and Inge Linder-Gaillard. Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier (Birkhauser, 2013). Introduction. Reviews Buggeln, Lau
- Saumarez Smith, Otto, “Robinson College, Cambridge, and the Twilight of a Collegiate Modernism, 1974–81”
- Seasoltz, Kevin, “From the Bauhaus to the House of God’s People: Frank Kacmarcik‘s Contribution to Church Architecture and Art”
- Sterken, “A House for God or a Home for His People? The Church-Building Activity of Domus Dei in the Belgian Archbishopric (1952-82)”
- Thomas, Helen and Adam Caruso, eds., Rudolf Schwarz and the Monumental Order of Things review by Jonas Brun
- “Vox Populi/Vox Dei: Richard Meier Builds in Tor Tre Teste”
- Wagner, George. “This Crushed Lantern: Wallace Harrison and the First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Connecticut”
- Young, Victoria M. Saint John’s Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space (Minnesota, 2014). cf. SAH Reviews DeSanctis, Fair, Hagan, Martin, Proctor, Tillotson, Zywoski
Theory and Criticism
Theory and Criticism: Books
- Bergmann, Sigurd, ed (page). Theology in Built Environments: Exploring Religion, Architecture, and Design (Transaction, 2011). Review Bohannon
- Bermudez, Julio, ed. Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space (CUA, 2015) rev. Dugdale
- Bouyer, Louis. Liturgy and Architecture rev. Addleshaw
- Charles, Prince of Wales. Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World (Harper, 2010) rev. Miller
- Cobb, Peter G. “The Architectural Setting of the Liturgy” in Jones et al., The Study of Liturgy (Oxford, 1992)
- Crum, “Facing the Closed Doors to Reception? Speculations on Foreign Exchange, Liturgical Diversity, and the “Failure” of the Portinari Altarpiece”
- Daelemans, Bert, S.J. Spiritus Loci: A Theological Method for Contemporary Church Architecture (Brill, 2015)
- Doorly, Moyra. No Place for God: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture (Ignatius, 2007). Review Cameron-Mowat, Evans
- Elsen, “Bomb the Church? What We Don’t Tell Our Students in Art 1”
- Gerstel, Sharon E.J. Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives (Dumbarton Oaks, 2007) rev. Brooks Stroka
- Gorringe, T. J. A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption rev. Graham
- Hammond, Peter.
- Liturgy and Architecture (Columbia, 1961)
- Towards a Church Architecture (Architectural Press, 1962) rev. Minchin
- Hejduk and Williamson, eds. The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader rev. Parker
- Homan, Roger. The Art of the Sublime: Principles of Christian Art and Architecture (Ashgate, 2006) Review Morris
- Kleiner, Mendel et al. Worship Space Acoustics (Ross, 2010) rev. Fleisher
- McAlpine, William M. Sacred Space for the Missional Church: Engaging Culture Through the Built Environment (Wipf and Stock, 2011)
- McNamara, Denis.
- Nichols, Aidan. Redeeming Beauty: Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics (Ashgate, 2007) rev. McInerny
- Onians, “Architecture, Metaphor and the Mind”
- Runkle, John Andrew, ed. Searching for Sacred Space: Essays on Architecture and Liturgical Design in the Episcopal Church (Church Publishing, 2002)
- Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Architecture (Princeton, 2013).
- Stroik, Duncan. The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal (Hillenbrand, 2012). Introduction Review Nielsen
- Torgerson, Mark A. An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today (Eerdmans, 2007). Reviews Bains, Buggeln, Fout, Williams
- Webb, Geoffrey. The Liturgical Altar (Romanitas, 2011) rev. Stroik
- Wiebe, Paul. The Architecture of Religion: A Theoretical Essay rev. Raschke
- Wright, Craig. The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music. rev. Gibbons
- Wuerl, Donald Cardinal and Mike Aquilina. The Church: Unlocking the Secrets of the Places Catholics Call Home (Random House, 2013) rev. Bermudez
Theory & Criticism: Articles
- Alderman, Matthew.
- “Architects and the Production of Religious Space.” Introduction by Gretchen Buggeln, and commentary by Karla Britton, Patrick J. Quinn, and Duncan Stroik
- Barth, Karl. “Protestantism and Architecture.” alternate cf. Quash, “Von Balthasar and the Dialogue with Karl Barth”
- Benedict XVI [Joseph Ratzinger]
- Bott, Suzanne and Michael J. Crosbie. “Discovering the Sacred Within the Quotidian.”
- Brown, Robert McAfee. “True and False Witness: Architecture and the Church”
- Chessman, Stuart. “The Great Thousand Years” [Ralph Adams Cram]
- Clark, Jennifer, ““This Special Shell”: The Church Building and the Embodiment of Memory”
- Crosbie, Michael J. “Designing Distinctive Churches.”
- Dannels, Paul. “Approaching the Iceberg: Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church.”
- Effa, Allan. “Pub congregations, coffee house communities, tall-steeple churches, and sacred space: The missional church movement and architecture.”
- Freeman, Jennifer, “Architecture and Liturgy,” Khan Academy
- Guiliano, Zachary. “The Beautiful Architecture of Faith: Life-Giving Structures, Power, Hierarchy.”
- Guyer, Paul
- Harries, Karsten. “Theatricality and Re-Presentation”
- Healey, “The Symbolism of the Cross in Sacred and Secular Art”
- Heatwole, Charles. “Sectarian Ideology and Church Architecture,” Geographical Review (January 1989), 63-78
- Hughes, Margaret. “Joseph Pieper and the Beautiful Uselessness of Church Buildings”
- Jasper, David. “The arts and modern Christian architecture.”
- Kane, “Is That a Beer Vat under the Baldochino? From Antimodernism to Postmodernism in Catholic Church Architecture”
- Kerr, Hugh T. “The Gothic Image: Church and College”
- Kilde, “Urbanization and Transformations in Religious Mission and Architecture”
- Lang, Uwe Michael. “What Makes Architecture “Sacred”?”
- Leigh, Catesby.
- “A Return to Grace” [on Duncan Stroik]
- “Building More Value into the World We Build.”
- “Could Picasso Draw Better Than Raphael?”
- “East to West”
- “Henry Hope Reed, Defender of Decoration” and “Classical American”
- “Pittsburgh’s Gothic Legacy” [Ralph Adams Cram]
- “Reviving Sacred Sculpture”
- “The John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC: Will the Medium Be the Message?”
- “The Stones of Babel: Modernist Sacred Architecture & the Mortification of the Senses.”
- Lewis, Michael.
- “All Sail, No Anchor: Architecture After Modernism”
- “England’s Gothic Man-Child” [Pugin]
- “The New Horror Victorianorum“
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- “A-Spiring to God” [Ralph Adams Cram]
- “Ambiguity at the American Acropolis” [Enrique Martinez Celaya and Ralph Adams Cram]
- “Architecture and Absolutes” and “Just Another Routine Lecture at the Yale School of Art” [Ralph Adams Cram]
- “A Curse Reversed: Towards a Visual Ecumenism”
- “A Secular Age 2.0” [Thomas Pfau]
- “Building for Humans: Architecture after Modernism”
- “Eucharistic Architecture” [on Jean Labatut]
- “Nameless Beauty: Conservatism’s Architecture Problem”
- “Primus inter pares: Albert M. Friend and the Argument of the Princeton University Chapel”
- “When Art Plays Church”
- “Woody Allen’s Architectural Nostalgia”
- Myers, Anne M. “Restoring “The Church-porch”: George Herbert’s Architectural Style”
- Nielsen, Philip. “Depicting the Whole Christ: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Sacred Architecture.” (alternate)
- Pierce, “Visual and Auditory Space in Baroque Rome”
- Seblatnig, Heidemarie. “A Response to Ottokar Uhl’s Church Building as Process.”
- Sittler, Joseph. “Faith and Form.”
- Spelman, Leslie
- Stroik, Duncan. “A Church for the Poor.”
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