Liturgical space : Christian worship and church buildings in western Europe 1500-2000 / Nigel Yates.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The legacy of the pre-Reformation church and the impact of the Reformation -- The origins of Christian architecture -- Pre-Reformation worship and the reformers -- The impact on church buildings -- The Catholic Counter-Reformation -- Protestant worship in Catholic buildings -- 2. The Lutheran Churches of Germany and Scandinavia -- Lutheran worship -- Sweden : a liturgical case study -- Lutheran Church buildings -- The cruciform plan church -- The pulpit-altar arrangement -- The Lutheran Church interior -- Lutheran worship and buildings in perspective -- 3. The Calvinist and Reformed Churches -- The Reformed approach to public worship -- Reformed Churches in France and the Netherlands -- Reformed Churches in Switzerland and Hungary -- Presbyterianism in Scotland and Ireland -- The Free Churches in England and Wales -- 4. The worship and buildings in Anglican Via media -- The Elizabethan settlement -- The Laudian transformation -- The restoration church -- The road to ecclesiology -- Anglican worship on the eve of the Oxford Movement -- 5. Counter-Reformation Roman Catholicism -- The Tridentine mass -- Church services and buildings in Catholic Europe -- Roman Catholicism in the Netherlands -- Roman Catholicism in England and Wales -- Roman Catholicism in Scotland -- Roman Catholicism in Ireland -- 6. Ecclesiology and neo-Medievalism -- The origins of the Gothic revival -- Ecclesiology and ritualism in the Church of England -- Roman Catholicism ecclesiology and ritual -- Ecclesiology and ritual in Protestant nonconformity and the Church of Scotland -- European Gothic, Catholic and Protestant -- The ethos of the Gothic revival -- 7. Liturgical renewal and church design in the twentieth century -- The survival of traditional buildings -- Liturgical renewal in the inter-war period -- The earliest modern churches -- Liturgical reform since 1945 -- New churches and liturgical reordering.