Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1: CONTEXT
• 1. Introduction: Pews
• 2 Liturgy and spaces:
• 3 The Temple of His Presence
• 4 Pews In Norwegian churches
• 5 How many seats in church?
• Part 2: HISTORY: TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 6 Seating in the nave of the pre-Reformation parish church
• 7 Medieval benches and bench ends of Somerset
• 8 Assessing and evaluating English pews: three case studies
• 9 Order and place in England, 1580-1640: the view from the pew
• 10 Post-Reformation church seating arrangements and bench assembly notation in two North Devon churches
• 11 'To take theire plases wheare they shall not offend others': the 1635 reseating of Puddletown church, Dorset
• 12 The pews at St Mary, Newent, Gloucestershire
• Part 3: HISTORY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 13 Patterns of church seating from Waterloo to 1850, and the role of the Cambridge Camden Society
• 14 Victorian guidance on seating from the Incorporated Church Building Society
• 15 Movable benches or chairs? Correspondence in the Ecclesiologist 1854-6
• 16 'The Same fashion as the present ancient seats'.
• 17 Some seating designs in churches by John Hayward of Exeter
• 18 Church seating: a view from Suffolk
• 19 Victorian church seating: variations upon a theme
• 20 Spoiled for choice: seating from the catalogue
• 21 Machine carving of Victorian pew ends: some initial findings
• Part 4: CONSIDERING CHANGE
• 22 Seats in church
• 23 Pews: The view from a DAC secretary
• 24 The appropriate alternatives to fixed seating
• 25 Pew platforms
• 26 Assessing the importance of Victorian and other congregational seating
• 27 Considering changes to church seating
• 28 Pews: why do they matter?
• Part 5: CASE STUDIES
• 29 Case studies
• Part 6: POSTSCRIPT AND FURTHER READING
• 30 Postscript: One Hundred years hence