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Bremner, G. A.

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G. A. Bremner

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Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c.1840–1870

~A project such as this accumulates innumerable debts. Many people have contributed both their time and knowledge towards its realisation. To these people — unfortunately too numerous to mention all by name — I am greatly indebted.

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A project such as this accumulates innumerable debts. Many people have contributed both their time and knowledge towards its realisation. To these people — unfortunately too numerous to mention all by name — I am greatly indebted.

There are those, however, to whom I owe a particular debt of gratitude. These include Simon Bradley, Peter Coffman, Michael Hall, Deborah Howard, Ian Lochhead, Peter Mandler, Andrew Saint and Frank Salmon, all of whom continually supported and encouraged my work, either by reading and commenting on sections of the original manuscript, or by assisting with grant applications, or both. Without their kind assistance and generosity, this project would not have been possible.

Many colleagues offered advice or assistance along the way, especially during my long periods abroad conducting field research. Among these were Margaret Alington, Brian Allen, Brian Andrews, Barry Bergdoll, Michael Berning, James Bettley, Geoff Brandwood, Judith Bright, Mark Crinson, Colin Cunningham, Lynne DiStefano, Amol Divkar, Mark Dorrian, Leonie Duncan, Ian Dungavell, Chris Eve, Federico Freschi, James Grant (former Anglican Bishop of Melbourne), Manolo Guerci, Peter Hoffenberg, Colin Holden, Gill Hunter, Gordon Johnson, Katharine Jones, Paul Kotze, Tom Kvan, Howard Le Couteur, Ho Yin Lee, Miles Lewis, Sarah Longair, David Lung, Nancy Mallett, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Henry Mbaya, Chris Miele, Amlan Mondal, Paul Murray, Harriet Partridge, Alistair Pask, Leela Pienaar, Derek Pratt, Hannah le Roux, Gavin Stamp, Jane Teal, Malcolm Thurlby, Rachel Travers, Louise Trott, Geoffrey Tyack, Rachel Underwood, Catherine Wakeling, Susan Walton, Chris Webster, William Whyte, Jane Wild, Camilla Wright Premachandra, and the Master and Fellows of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne.

I also wish to acknowledge the generous support of those agencies and foundations that assisted in funding the project, including the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Early Career Fellowship), the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago), the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities, the J. R. Small-wood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the Macgeorge Fellowship (University of Melbourne), the University of Edinburgh, the visiting fellowship scheme at St John’s College (University of Oxford), the Friends of the Alexander Turnbull Library (National Library of New Zealand) and especially the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University), which initially awarded me a Postdoctoral Fellowship to commence this project and continued to fund it generously thereafter.

The staff at numerous libraries, museums and archives have been very helpful in enabling me to locate, view and reproduce relevant material for this book. These institutions include the Anglican Diocesan Archives in Sydney, Melbourne, Kolkata, Adelaide, Christchurch, Victoria (BC), Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador (St John’s), Montreal and Newcastle (NSW); the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; the Archives of Ontario, Toronto; Bishop’s College Archive, Cape Town; Bishop’s College Library and Archive, Kolkata, India; the Brotherhood of the Ascended Christ Library, Delhi; Canterbury Museum, Christchurch; Centre for Newfoundland Studies (Memorial University Libraries), St John’s, Newfoundland; the Cory Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; Drawings and Archives Collections, RIBA Library; Elphinstone College Library and Archive, Mumbai; the Huntington Library, San Marino; John Kinder Theological Library, St John’s College, Auckland; the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; National Archives of Singapore; National Library of Scotland; the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton; Rare Books and Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library; Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Cape Town Libraries; Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library; Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney; Selwyn College Library Archive, University of Cambridge; State Library of South Australia, Adelaide; the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; the Tasmanian State Library and Archives, Hobart; The Rooms Provincial Archives, St John’s, Newfoundland; Trinity College Library, University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle Archive (Auchmuty Library); William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand; Zanzibar National Archives; as well as the numerous church and cathedral vestry archives consulted. A special mention must be made of Lucy McCann and Tony Hill at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Oxford, for their unending patience in assisting with material from the archive of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (formerly the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts). This archive was fundamental to the study.

The editorial team at Yale University Press has been both extremely professional and efficient in their handling of the material for the production of this book. In this regard I would especially like to thank Gillian Malpass, Emily Lees, Sarah Faulks, Charlotte Grievson and Rosemary Roberts. Without their ever friendly patience and guidance this book would not have been able to take the form that it has.

Friends and family have helped out in various ways during the preparation of this book. In this respect, I wish to thank first and foremost all those members of my family who offered assistance, especially my parents, Anne and George, who have been unerring in their support and encouragement from the beginning. I also wish to acknowledge the support of Claudia Bolgia, Tim Brittain-Catlin, Jonathan Conlin, Louise Curran, Maria Ferreira Gomes, Giovanna Guidicini, Kathryn Ferry, Kate and Vesa Kangaslahti, Jonathan Lamb, the Rev. Jack McDonald, James McGregor, Bridget Orr, Judith Trimble, and last, but by no means least, Emma Frow, to whom this book is dedicated.

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