Places of worship

UDC: 726

Leslie Fairweather was editor of The Architects’ Journal. Ian Brewerton is an architect in private

practice with a wife who is a Baptist and URC minister. Atba Al-Samarraie is Principal

Structural Engineer and Consultant in Practice at Bullen Consultant’s Bradford office. Derek

Kemp is principal architect at CPL Chartered Architects, specialists in church projects

Contents

1 Introduction

PART A Guide to Christian denominations

2 Church of England

3 Roman catholic church

4 United reformed church

5 The salvation army

6 Methodist church

7 Baptist church and baptistries

8 Society of friends

9 Pastoral centres

PART B Design data

10 Altar or communion table

11 Sanctuary furniture and pulpit

12 Font

13 Reservation of the sacrament

14 General arrangements

15 Vestries and sacristies

16 Confessional

17 Organ and choir

PART C Non-Christian places of worship

18 Synagogues

19 Mosques

20 Hindu temple

21 Sikh gurdwara

PART D

22 Crematoria

23 Biblography

1 INTRODUCTION

1.01 Scope

This chapter will cover churches and places of worship for various

Christian denominations, synagogues, mosques and Hindu temples.