Is there any famous churches from the ELizabethan Era.?

Question

The ELizabethan era (built.

Answer 1

I'm finding lots of houses and palaces, but no churches. Churches did add pulpits and pews, though, because sermons were added to church services and sometimes lasted two to four hours. Here's what my reference says on building:

"Church-building had virtually come to a stop in England from about 1540 to around 1660, owing to religious turmoil and to the existence of a surplus of medieval churches, the latter being partly the result of over-building during the ‘Age of Faith’. The most important example is St John's Church, Leeds (1634), which is entirely Gothic in structure and general design, but contains magnificent Jacobean (strictly ‘Carolean’) interior woodwork fittings.

The Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, however, saw a great boom and revolution in the building of houses and of grammar schools and colleges. An extreme example of the application of Roman features is the ‘Tower of the Five Orders’ (1613–18) at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where the classical Orders are applied as mere decoration to a building with mullioned windows, battlements and pinnacles."

I did see a reference to "wool churches," churches that were built in areas that wool production increased. These however date from the late Medieval period rather than Elizabethan era.

Answer 2

We have Saxon and Norman churches in England that pre-dates Elizabethan churches. They might not be "famous", but they are all used on a regular basis for church services.

Answer 3

The first consideration of any study of church architecture in the English Reformation must necessarily be that very few churches were built during this time (though by the early seventeenth century, many were being restored.