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Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain

Walter Hussey and the Arts

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Authors:
  1. Peter Webster

    1. Independent Scholar, Chichester, United Kingdom

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  • First critical study of Hussey’s work and life, one of the most significant figures in Anglican artistic patronage
  • Explores how the Church of England met, resisted and negotiated with forces of cultural change in the arts and in the religious life of the nation
  • Makes extensive use of Hussey’s papers to explore the relationship between patron and artist in the twentieth century
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000 (HISASE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Formation of a Patron

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 17-47

  4. The 1943 Jubilee festival at Northampton

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 49-84

  5. Music, Art and Poetry: 1944–1955

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 85-118

  6. The Religious Arts on a Rising Tide: People, Media, Networks

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 119-146

  7. New Visual Art for Chichester

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 147-186

  8. Chichester Music

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 187-211

  9. Cathedral, City and Diocese

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 213-226

  10. Legacy

    • Peter Webster
    Pages 227-236

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 237-256
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About this book

This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the twentieth century. They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by W. H. Auden. Placing Hussey in theological context and in a period of rapid cultural change, it explores the making and reception of the commissions, and the longer-term influence of his work, still felt today.

As well as contributing to the religious and cultural history of Britain, and of Anglo-Catholicism and the cathedrals in particular, the book will be of interest to all those concerned with the relationship between theology and the arts, and to historians of music and the visual arts.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, Chichester, United Kingdom

    Peter Webster

About the author

Peter Webster is an independent scholar and consultant, and owner of Webster Research and Consulting. He has published widely on the history of the Church of England in the twentieth century. His study of Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury, was published in 2015.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain

  • Book Subtitle: Walter Hussey and the Arts

  • Authors: Peter Webster

  • Series Title: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36910-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36909-3Published: 20 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67658-3Published: 15 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36910-9Published: 07 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3351

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-336X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Religion, Cultural History, Modern History, Literary History

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