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Jonathan Meades, The Observer, 25th November 2001.
"The greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world."
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"Not a mile visually unrewarding or painful" Pevsner wrote of this attractive rolling county on the borders of Wales, studded with red sandstone churches and appealing villages of timber-framed and brick houses. There is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny county churches with the distinctive wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to the inventive Gothic of Abbey Dore and Hereford Cathedral. Later highlights include endearing oddities such as the icing-sugar Gothic of the eighteenth century church at Shobdon, and Robert Smirke's grandiose neo-Norman Eastnor Castle.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What can one say that others haven't already? As with every other volume in the Buildings of England (or Wales, or Scotland or Ireland) series, for the architectural enthusiast, exploration of new territory without the appropriate trusty Pevsner county guide in hand would be quite unthinkable.
Herefordshire is no exception. The illustrations are not great (but then you don't buy Pevsner for the pictures) but the descriptions are as pithy as ever! Abbey Dore and Croft Castle, Kilpeck and Shobdon, Berrington Hall and of course Hereford Cathedral, they're all here, and also hundreds of other marvellous buildings you'd never otherwise know about.
Isn't it about time Pevsner appreciation became a required subject in all UK schools?!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
No comment needed on Pevsner as the are the long established county by county architectural reference books. They are dry but at least are not 'padded' and read as if they are field notes.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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It should be noted that this is not the revised edition, by Alan Brooks, promised for 2011 by Yale.
I ordered the revised edition 2011, but what came was the original 1963 edition. I returned this to Amazon and asked for the payment to be put on hold towards the Alan Brooks edition when it comes out, which will be soon. However, Amazon just sent another copy of the old edition. Alan Brooks is going to be especially good on the stained glass of Herefordshire; any reader contemplating buying the book would be wise to wait until his revision really is published.
Richard Camp
I ordered the revised edition 2011, but what came was the original 1963 edition. I returned this to Amazon and asked for the payment to be put on hold towards the Alan Brooks edition when it comes out, which will be soon. However, Amazon just sent another copy of the old edition. Alan Brooks is going to be especially good on the stained glass of Herefordshire; any reader contemplating buying the book would be wise to wait until his revision really is published.
Richard Camp
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