Religious Architecture in Canada I | L’architecture religieuse au Canada I
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Although the study of architecture in Canada is a relatively young field, it is no exaggeration to say that more attention has been given to religious architecture than any other form of building in the country. That is because as long as people have inhabited the land that is now known as Canada, there have been buildings devoted to their religious beliefs and practices. Churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples can be found in communities across the country in every style, from vernacular to modern. These buildings are expressive, practical, and reflect Canadian pluralism. This session welcomes papers on religious architecture of all types and styles, from all periods of Canada’s history.
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Quoique l’architecture soit un domaine relativement nouveau au Canada, il n’est pas exagéré de dire que l’architecture religieuse reçoit plus d’attention que tous les autres genres de construction dans le pays. Depuis le peuplement de terres identifiées comme le Canada, il y eut des bâtiments dévoués aux croyances et aux pratiques religieuses. Les églises, les synagogues, les mosquées et les temples sont présents dans les communautés à travers le pays, et ce dans tous les styles, du vernaculaire au moderne. Ces édifices expressifs et pratiques reflètent le pluralisme canadien. Cette séance vise à explorer des soumissions à propos de l’architecture religieuse, de tous les types et styles et de toutes les époques de l’histoire du Canada.
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During the 1840s, many substantial Anglican Gothic Revival churches of brick and stone arose in Canada West, but very few of them displayed the style promulgated in Britain by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and the Cambridge Camden Society. Some of the Anglican clergy there had some familiarity with the architectural views of the Ecclesiologists and the shift from a read to a sung liturgy that was taking place in England, but these ideas made little impact in the pages of The Church, the o...
Less than a year after Edward Staveley's Methodist temple of 1848 -- the first gothic revival church in Quebec City -- Charles Baillairgé proposed using the gothic style in the catholic parish of La Nativité in Beauport. Although the general form of his 1849 project follows the lines of neoclassical churches designed by Thomas Baillairgé or by himself (such as St-Jean-Baptiste in Quebec), and although Baillairgé's treatment of the gothic vocabulary may thereby seem a little superficial, hi...
This paper will highlight how the churches built by Victor Bourgeau (1821-1892) in the diocese of Montreal were influenced by aesthetics as advocated by A.W.N. Pugin and the periodical The Ecclesiologist. Even though a hundred or so churches are attributed to architect-builder Bourgeau, he never actually drew plans. Rather, he erected his first buildings (among which the Saint-Pierre-Apôtre Church in Montréal, in 1850) after John Ostell’s plans. It is Ostell who initiated B...
