Publisher's Synopsis
The author is former Chief Inspector of Historic Buildings at Historic Scotland, academic and author of many books on Scottish architecture and industrial history published over the last decades. This series of six volumes using his own photographs, in black an white and in colour, evolved from a lecture given in 2014 for the Scotland's Churches Trust. The fifth volume in this series is the third to deal with the nineteenth century and then deals with the Edwardian period and the early years of George V's reign. This was a time of increasing industrialisation and prosperity enabling cities an large towns to grow quickly. This urbanisation allowed the Roman Catholic and Free churches especially to embark on large programmes of church-building.
