Victorian restoration
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The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of medieval Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-centu
The west front of Lichfield Cathedral as restored by George Gilbert Scott
The unrestored interior of the Puritan Chapel, Bramhope, West Yorkshire
The nave of St Peter's, Berkhamsted, with Butterfield's restorations
The nave of Bath Abbey – Scott's stone fan vaulting that replaced the ancient wooden ceiling to the original design by Robert and William Vertue.
Commissioners' church
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A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in England or Wales built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Act 1
Victorian restoration
…evidence of this shortfall. To fulfil this need, between 1818 and 1824 the Government had granted £1.5 million for building new churches. Known as Commissioners' churches, most of them cost only £4,000 to £5,000 each to build, and dissatisfaction with their indifferent design and cheap construction provoked a strong…
St George's Church, Brandon Hill, a Commissioners' church in a Neoclassical style by Robert Smirke
All Saints' Church, Stand, by Charles Barry in a Gothic Revival style with Early English elements
Church of St George, Chester Road, Hulme, by Francis Goodwin in a Gothic Revival style with Perpendicular elements