Continental Church Furniture in England: A Traffic in Piety

Visit any church in England, armed with the relevant volume of the Buildings of England series, and you are presented with a succinct and scholarly overview of the architecture. For further, more detailed information, there are a multitude of in‐depth texts to which to refer. Similarly, the medieval church furnishings have their own body of research. It is when one turns to Continental church furnishings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that there is so little information. In guides there are sometimes a name, a date, or a particular provenance, but little in the way of context or thorough explanation....