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Devon (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner
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R1,846
R1,686
Discovery Miles 16 860
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Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of
medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments.
The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the
seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded
manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The
delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are
explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and
Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and
Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of
the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but
little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.
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Surrey (Hardcover)
Charles O'Brien, Ian Nairn, Bridget Cherry
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R1,836
R1,676
Discovery Miles 16 760
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A newly expanded volume on England's preeminent "Home County,"
exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its
many major historic buildings Surrey, originally published in 1962,
was the first Buildings of England volume that Pevsner shared with
another author, and Ian Nairn's brilliant, provocative descriptions
have been treas ured by many ever since. For centuries Surrey has
been the playground for London, and home to thousands of its
commuters. Yet much of the county is still deeply wooded or
surprisingly bucolic. This fully revised and enhanced edition, the
first since 1971, is packed with new information on its major
historic buildings - Waverley Abbey, Farnham Castle, Sutton Place
and Loseley Park among others - and much-expanded accounts of its
Victorian set pieces - Royal Holloway College, Holloway Sanatorium
and Charterhouse School - alongside fresh appreciation of the
twentieth century, including its principal monument, Guildford's
cath edral. To the fore in Surrey is domestic architecture:
medieval farmhouses, seventeenth-century gentry houses in the
Artisan Classical style, eighteenth-century country houses,
Victorian and Edwardian businessmen's residences, designed most
famously by Norman Shaw, Lutyens and Voysey, and high-class
suburban estates. Into this small county is fitted architecture of
endless variety, ranging from Georgian designed landscapes to
military cemeteries, from seminaries to shooting clubs, and from
lime kilns to lunatic asylums.
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Wiltshire (Hardcover)
Julian Orbach, Nikolaus Pevsner; Contributions by Bridget Cherry
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R1,839
R1,679
Discovery Miles 16 790
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The indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire
With hundreds of buildings added to the new gazetteer, this volume
offers a fully revised and updated guide to Wiltshire. From
prehistoric Stonehenge and thirteenth-century Salisbury Cathedral,
to Elizabethan Longleat, Palladian Wilton and landscaped gardens of
Stourhead, the buildings of Wiltshire represent the best of every
period of English architecture. Towns range from Marlborough with
its sweeping High Street to Bradford-on-Avon, rich in the
architectural legacy of clothiers' houses. Villages include the
exceptional Lacock in the shadow of its abbey's remains as well as
Avebury, where the houses sit within the famous stone circle. This
volume, covering structures as diverse as garden follies and
railway workers' housing is an essential reference for visitors and
residents alike.
This volume on London architecture covers the boroughs of Barnet,
Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington. It gives a view
of London's expansion northward from formal Georgian squares, to
the hill towns of Hampstead and Highgate.
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London 5: East (Hardcover)
Charles O'Brien, Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner
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R1,806
Discovery Miles 18 060
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The buildings of East London reflect a chequered history of
economic change, social need, urban renewal, and conservation.
Along the Thames relics of a powerful industrial and maritime past
at Wapping, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs remain among the glossy
new offices and smart riverside flats of the former Docklands. In
the fast-changing historic East End, where the City edges ever
closer, Hawksmoor's monumental Baroque churches still tower over
their surroundings, while Georgian houses of prosperous silkweavers
are juxtaposed with philanthropic institutions which catered for
the Victorian poor of Spitalfields, Whitechapel and Bethnal Green.
The contribution of successive generations of immigrants is
reflected in the variety of places of worship and cultural centres,
from chapels to synagogues and mosques, while a century of social
housing has produced innovative planning and architecture, now
itself of historic interest. Further out, in
London-over-the-border, medieval churches and merchants' country
mansions lie embedded among the suburban streets of Walthamstow and
Woodford, and proud civic buildings of the busy towns of Barking,
Stratford, Ilford and Romford. Essex, and traditional rural
buildings among the marshes and farmland of the Essex countryside.
This volume covers the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering,
Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. For each area
there is a detailed gazetteer and historical overview. Numerous
maps and plans, over one hundred specially-taken photographs and
full indexes make this volume invaluable as both reference work and
guide. London 5: East is the fifth in the six-volume London series
of The Buildings of England. Already published: London 1: the City
of London, London 2: South, London 3: North West, London 4: North
and London 6: Westminster. Also available in paperback: London: The
City Churches.
A comprehensive architectural guide encompassing three centuries of
metropolitan growth spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone
and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow
Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex.
London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve
southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal
splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights
of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in Lambeth and
Southwark. But the book also charts lesser known suburbs, from
former villages such as Clapham to still rural, Edwardian
Chislehurst, as well as the results of twentieth-century planners'
dreams from Roehampton to Thamesmead. Full accounts are given of
London landmarks as diverse as Southwark Cathedral, Soane's Dulwich
Picture Gallery and the arts complex of the South Bank. The outer
boroughs include diverse former country houses - Edward IV's Eltham
Palace, the Jacobean Charlton House, and the Palladian Marble Hill.
The rich Victorian churches and school buildings are covered in
detail, as are the exceptional structures of Kew Gardens.
Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this
prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall,
the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century
French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton
Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey
of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are
smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of
Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at
Rushton and the evocative New Beild at Lyveden. Of no less interest
are the fine churches, from Anglo-Saxon Brixworth to the noble
Gothic of Warmington, Rushden and Finedon and from All Saints,
Northampton, one of the grandest 17th-century churches outside
London, to Comper's St. Mary's, Wellingborough. Chief among the
towns, Northampton has not only distinguished Victorian and
Edwardian public, commercial and industrial buildings but also the
principal work in England by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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Hertfordshire (Hardcover)
James Bettley, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry
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R1,826
R1,666
Discovery Miles 16 660
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This fully revised and up-to-date guide to the architecture of
Hertfordshire is an eye-opening introduction to the wealth of fine
buildings that can be found right on London's doorstep.
Hertfordshire is one of the smallest English counties, largely
rural in character. Its buildings range from remains of the Roman
city of Verulamium to the medieval abbey at St. Albans and the
17th-century Hatfield House. Numerous timber-framed buildings and
Georgian houses are found in the small towns whose preservation was
aided by the early 20th-century creation of the Garden Cities at
Letchworth and Welwyn, as well as Stevenage New Town, built after
the Second World War. Pretty villages set in the county's rolling
farmland feature churches that have towers crowned with spires
known as Hertfordshire spikes, while commuter suburbs are rich in
housing from homely Arts and Crafts to radical Modernism. With
expanded entries and new color photography, this is an essential
work of reference for visitors and residents alike.
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