The Church builder
The Church Builder is an 1862 London trade journal from the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, published by Rivingtons for clergy and church builders. Its plates show medieval and classical church furnishings: a domed tabernacle or ciborium, an arched aedicule, a latticed stone tomb chest, and an incised memorial brass with a standing figure under Gothic canopy work. A designer could draw on the tracery panels, carved foliage scrolls, and canopied figure compositions for ecclesiastical ornament.
