Comments on: York Minster in Colour http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/ Where Past Meets Future Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:12:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: David St. Hubbins http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-150 David St. Hubbins Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:54:02 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-150 Check out St. Cross chapel for a fine example of a whitewashing. Bah. OTOH, I associate Victorian architecture with some wonderful excesses and fiddly bits. Constructional polychromy was often a feature of inner city churches and the civic building made marvellous use of local materials and colour. Dunedin station ( http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=restore_railway ) is a fine example. You might even say it goes to 11. Check out St. Cross chapel for a fine example of a whitewashing. Bah.
OTOH, I associate Victorian architecture with some wonderful excesses and fiddly bits. Constructional polychromy was often a feature of inner city churches and the civic building made marvellous use of local materials and colour. Dunedin station ( http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=restore_railway ) is a fine example.
You might even say it goes to 11.

]]> By: Tom http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-147 Tom Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:44 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-147 True, I'd forgotten about the Reformation. The once colourful, beautiful interiors (and exteriors), of our churches, scrubbed away and whitewashed. In the name of a more 'pure' form of Christianity, of course. Ironically, it was in the oft-viewed 'austere' Victorian period that we had the restoration of many wall paintings in some British churches, such as the Doom painting in the church of St Thomas, Salisbury. Here's to colour! True, I’d forgotten about the Reformation. The once colourful, beautiful interiors (and exteriors), of our churches, scrubbed away and whitewashed. In the name of a more ‘pure’ form of Christianity, of course.

Ironically, it was in the oft-viewed ‘austere’ Victorian period that we had the restoration of many wall paintings in some British churches, such as the Doom painting in the church of St Thomas, Salisbury.

Here’s to colour!

]]> By: Tehmina http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-146 Tehmina Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0000 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2006/01/22/york-minster-in-colour/#comment-146 You are quite right. This country seems to have suffered psychologically from the white-washing of churches that occured from the Reformation to the Victorian era. Our interest in colour in our buildings, food and clothing has faded to grey, beige, brown and black. Now, more than at any other time in history, do we require the joy of colours. And lots of them. You are quite right. This country seems to have suffered psychologically from the white-washing of churches that occured from the Reformation to the Victorian era. Our interest in colour in our buildings, food and clothing has faded to grey, beige, brown and black. Now, more than at any other time in history, do we require the joy of colours. And lots of them.

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