Trinity College Chapel
An appreciation
by Caroline Miley
Copies of this book can be purchased from the Trinity Shop
Caroline Miley's study of Trinity College Chapel is most welcome in Australian architectural writing. Here she examines a crucial and inventive late Gothic Revival building in Australia: completed at a time when the spiritual in an architectural image was entering a critical phase, changing itself radically in the face of industrial civilisation; its architect, Alexander North, is one of the very front rank of Australia's architects. Her account, written attentively and with affection, gives us the texture, the context and the detail of a building most noted in architectural circles as rating in accomplishment with the best contemporary work: of Horbury Hunt, Robert Haddon, Robin Dods or John Hawes.
About the author
Caroline Miley is a lecturer in art history in the School of Art of the Victorian College of the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and of LaTrobe University, where she completed her PhD on the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria (1889-1929). She has lectured and published in the field of Australian decorative arts, including contemporary criticism and on women artists, and has curated a major exhibition of Tasmanian Arts and Crafts. Her interests include late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century decorative arts and architecture, especially ecclesiastical art and architecture.