Reconstruction, Englishness and Coventry Cathedral
Journal title STORIA URBANA
Author/s Louise Campbell
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/158
Language English Pages 23 P. 87-109 File size 553 KB
DOI 10.3280/SU2018-158005
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This article considers the way in which the architect Basil Spence, despite his Scottish background and training, placed strategic emphasis upon his familiarity with and sympathy for the architectural traditions of his adoptive country of England. It explores the connections made in the 1940s and 1950s between national identity and gothic architecture, viewed by Spence as a style of vitality and integrity, and links it to the design of Coventry Cathedral, a building which simultaneously commemorated the nation’s wartime dead and symbolized its post-war reconstruction.
Keywords: Basil Spence, John Harvey, Coventry Cathedral, Blitz, Neo-romanticism
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Louise Campbell, Reconstruction, Englishness and Coventry Cathedral in "STORIA URBANA " 158/2018, pp 87-109, DOI: 10.3280/SU2018-158005