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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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Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the late seventeenth 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. The great houses are complemented by smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them Sir Thomas Tresham's eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton. Of no less interest in this county of "spires and squires" are the fine village churches, from Early Saxon Brixworth to the noble early Gothic buildings which so inspired the Victorians.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
... is what Those In The Know have told me several times. I use this book (and those covering neighbouring counties) to guide me round historic churches. Even I have noticed inaccuracies, but the value of the series lies in providing clues which you would otherwise have missed, and leading on to other features. It is so convenient having all this information in one portable volume. I have been surprised by some omissions. For example, it beats me why the fine Church of Scotland in Occupation Road, Corby, is not mentioned. However, such criticisms seem churlish in consideration of the monumental achievement that is this series of volumes. So, yes, use the book as a valuable tool, while not necessarily believing all you read in Pevsner.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Several volumes in this series have been revised.
Please don't be fooled into thinking this is one of them. It is just the 1973 volume reprinted without change by Yale [previously published by Penguin].
Having said that the book is of course to the standard set by previous editions in the Penguin "Building of England" series.
Please don't be fooled into thinking this is one of them. It is just the 1973 volume reprinted without change by Yale [previously published by Penguin].
Having said that the book is of course to the standard set by previous editions in the Penguin "Building of England" series.
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