Showing The Churches of Liverpool by David Lewis

The Churches of Liverpool. Written by David Lewis,2001 a record of many of the city's churches, past and present. The publisher was not completely happy about the book; it was in the early days of digital photography and some of the images were bitmapped but, more inexcusably, the book lacked an index, which made navigation particularly annoying. That said, the book did present a topic well worthy of further work. The incredible explosion of church building in the nineteenth century was fuelled by a religious fervour created by the turbulence of the effects of industrialisation, scientific discovery and social uncertainty of the times. If Liverpool had a pub on every corner, it also had a church in every street, or so it seemed. These ranged from the simple mission 'hut' to the fully blown high gothic masterwork.