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To order this book: If you are in North America please Click Here for US$ pricing and orders through the David Brown Book company in Connecticut. If you are in Britain, Europe or elsewhere please Click Here for GB £ sterling pricing and orders through the Oxbow Books office in Oxford, UK. Chantrell - along with many architects of his generation - has hitherto been confined to the shadows of architectural history, shadows cast so adeptly by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists. This book reconsiders his many achievements and sets them within the context of architectural theory and practice of his time. After training in Soane's office and a string of compelling Classical buildings, Chantrell reinvented himself as a pioneering Gothic specialist to meet the huge post-Waterloo demand for additional church accommodation. He became one of the most accomplished exponents in this challenge area of practice, as well as being a respected antiquary, lecturer, writer and, later, an elder statesman of the profession on several prestigious London committees. Crowning his career is Leeds Parish Church (1837-41), the biggest church since Wren's St Paul's and, nationally, the most important church of the age.