John Francis Bentley

'To know what else to see to understand this endlessly creative architect, Peter Howell supplies a comprehensive list.'Christopher Howse, The Telegraph
'Peter Howell, who has been researching Bentley all his adult life, shows a man who began with a love of Gothic but who reached his apogee, at Westminster, with the greatest of all the country's Byzantine creations.'Ancient Monuments Society
'This stylishly produced monograph... [offers] a comprehensive list of Bentley's work and a bibliography short enough to show how little has been published on this great man, outside a few sources in the specialist press.'British Institute of Organ Studies
'Peter Howell's book fills the gap [of up-to date study of Bentley] handsomely. Concise and readable, it embodies the authority of the writer's life-long devotion to 19th-century Catholic architecture without the least pedantry.'Andrew Saint, The Art Newspaper
'Bentley is remembered as a church architect and, above all, for Westminster Cathedral, but Howell's comment that these interiors 'are beyond doubt among the most splendid and carefully thought out produced in the 19th century' is an apt recognition of the breadth of Bentley's creative genius.'
Ken Powell, Ecclesiology Today
'This is an excellent book, authoritative, clearly written, and attractively designed. A list of Bentley's works in all media is included, together with notes, a bibliography and a helpful index. The illustrations are of high quality and included representative examples of Bentley's stained glass.'
Michael Kerney, The Journal of Stained Glass