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The Buildings of England - Cheshire (2nd Hand Hardback)
SKU B004102
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Synopsis
Authors : Nikolaus Pevsner & Edward Hubbard.
For the architectural tourist, one of Cheshire's greatest and most characteristic delights is the use of timber. Little Moreton Hall has the most elaborate, fantastical and wholeheartedly vulgar display of black-&-white timbering that England has to offer, while the churches include an array of fine late medieval roofs.
Chester, whose famous 'rows' with their upper walkways are unique in medieval Europe, continues the timber-framed tradition in its riotous Victorian buildings but glories also in its Roman past, its medieval cathedral and its encircling city wall. Lyme Park shows an extraordinary continuity of building from the Elizabethan to the Georgian period.
The northern fringe of the county includes the built-up areas of Manchester's 'stockbroker belt' and the Wirral, with the formal splendour of Birkenhead, and Port Sunlight, the first "garden city" developed for ordinary working people.
Details
- Format : Thick, Smaller 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Architecture, Design & Engineering
- Published : 1971 (This Second Edition 2003 - Pevsner Architectural Guides / Yale University Press)
- ISBN : 9780300095883
- SKU : B004102
- PPC : SP900gm
- RRP : Unknown
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
7.5" x 4.5". 444pp.
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External Reviews
"Part of the greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world." - Jonathan Meades, The Observer.
"Brilliant book for any student of or with persons with interest in Cheshire's buildings (especially Churches, Public Buildings & Mansion Houses), Constructional artists & Architects." - H.C. Spreckley.
The Authors
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British historian who specialised in the art and architecture genres. He is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England, as well as his editorship of the Pelican History of Art.
Edward Horton Hubbard (2 July 1937 - 31 May 1989) was an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England. He also wrote the definitive biography of John Douglas, and played a part in the preservation of Albert Dock in Liverpool.
