Cambridge Camden Society

E421945

The Cambridge Camden Society was a 19th-century Anglican ecclesiological group that championed Gothic Revival church architecture and ritual, profoundly shaping Victorian church design in Britain.

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instanceOf Anglican organization
ecclesiological society
learned society
activeInPeriod Victorian era NERFINISHED
advocatedStyle Decorated Gothic
Perpendicular Gothic
surface form: Middle Pointed Gothic
country United Kingdom
criticized low-church Anglican practices
dissolved 1868
emphasized chancel and altar over pulpit
ritual richness in Anglican worship
fieldOfWork church architecture
ecclesiology
liturgical studies
focusesOn design of new Anglican churches
medieval Gothic church architecture
restoration of churches
foundedBy Alexander Hope NERFINISHED
Benjamin Webb ONNED2
John Mason Neale
hasKeyConcept architectural symbolism in worship
ecclesiological correctness
liturgical orientation of churches
hasPurpose promote medieval models for church design
reform Anglican church architecture
shape Anglican liturgical space
ideology High church Anglicanism
inception 1839
influenced Anglican church ritual
Gothic Revival architecture in Britain
Victorian church architecture
ecclesiological societies in other countries
influencedBy Puginian Gothic principles
medieval English parish churches
locationFounded CAMBRIDGE
surface form: Cambridge

University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
memberOf Anglo-Catholic tradition
movement Gothic Revival
Oxford Movement NERFINISHED
notableFor standardizing Victorian Anglican church layouts
systematic review of church building plans
notableWork The Ecclesiologist ONNED2
opposedStyle Classical church architecture
Georgian preaching-box churches
publication The Ecclesiologist NERFINISHED
religiousDenomination Anglicanism NERFINISHED
Church of England
renamedAs Ecclesiological Society NERFINISHED
renamedIn 1845

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William Butterfield influencedBy Cambridge Camden Society