Review: The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100–1560, by Richard Fawcett

Book Review| December 01 2013 Review: The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100–1560, by Richard Fawcett Richard Fawcett. The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100–1560New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011, 432 pp., 100 color and 300 b/w illus. $100, ISBN 9780300170498 Jeffrey A. K. Miller Jeffrey A. K. Miller 1London Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2013) 72 (4): 585–587. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.4.585 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey A. K. Miller; Review: The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100–1560, by Richard Fawcett. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 2013; 72 (4): 585–587. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.4.585 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Richard Fawcett has fulfilled his wish to write a detailed history of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland across the entire Middle Ages. In 2002, he introduced Scottish Medieval Churches: Architecture and Furnishings with a lament that there had been “little attempt to sort out what may be described as the chronology of the Scottish architectural vocabulary through correlation of the structural and documentary evidence.”1 Fearing that one individual could not shoulder a task done for other European countries in the nineteenth century by an entire generation of architectural historians and that no publisher would adequately commit to such a project, Fawcett instead composed Scottish Medieval Churches as a chronological stylistic overview of the churches’ individual elements, such as windows, porches, and lecterns. The structure mirrored much older guides to medieval architecture elsewhere, specifically Francis Bond’s Gothic Architecture in England from 1905.2 Fawcett’s latest work, however, reads more like Christopher... You do not currently have access to this content.