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 decade. This series of six volumes using his own photographs, in black and white and in colour, evolved from a lecture given in 2014 for the Scotland's Churches Trust. This final volume deals with the last 100 years. Leafing through the pages one's first assumption might be that the church design rulebook was thrown away in the 50s and 60ss. Art Deco and Scandinavian influences seem to have been at work making for distinctive church architecture which was actually born by necessity of the rationing of building materials post-war meaning that economical designs had to be developed.
