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A DREAM OF SPIRES, Ian Lochhead (NZ, 1999)

BENJAMIN MOUNTFORD AND THE GOTHIC REVIVAL

Hardback book in reasonable condition. Foxing inside cover and on first few pages, front and back. Some pages had been stuck together in small places, so minor indications of being carefully unstuck.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book looks at the life and work of the founding architect of Canterbury, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (1825-98), who arrived as the city of Christchurch was being founded. Over nearly fifty years Mountfort played a key role in transforming Christchurch from a village of crude timber buildings on a featureless, windswept plain, into a city of remarkable Gothic Revival buildings which contemporaries recognised as undeniably English in origin but with a character distinctly its own. His principal works, the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings, the Canterbury Museum, Canterbury College and the incomparable timber Gothic of St Mary's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, in Auckland, are among New Zealand's most prized historic buildings. Author Ian Lochhead also outlines how Mountfort's architectural dreams were threatened by unpredictable materials, an unfamiliar climate, the spectre of earthquakes, fickle clients and an almost continual shortage of money. His achievement was unrivalled by that of any other architect in colonial New Zealand.

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