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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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In this agricultural county of East Anglia, "scenery and buildings are a delight", wrote Pevsner. Numerous medieval houses and magnificent flint-faced churches with fine roofs and rich furnishings bear witness to the prosperity brought by the late medieval cloth trade. Castles are nobly represented by the unusual polygonal keep of Orford and the curtain-walled Framlingham, and great houses by a notable sequence of brick buildings of the sixteenth century. Among the coastal settlements are the lost town of Dunwich and picturesque Southwold; the varied inland towns range from Lavenham, remarkable for its exceptionally well preserved timber-framed buildings, to Bury St Edmunds, where fine Georgian houses are gathered around the precinct of the vast Norman abbey.
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The glories of England are to hand,
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This review is from: Suffolk (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) (Hardcover)
Pevsner's 'Buildings of England' are a remarkable collection of books. I am slowly building up a collection of them all. They are perfect for when guests come to stay and need taking out somewhere.
The Suffolk edition was my first, given as that is my current home county. The photographs are useful indicators of what to expect, and cleverly arranged. The written details may appear to be laborious and lacking of emotion or personality, but anyone who has an understanding of language will quickly come to see that they are at times quite biting. An excellent resource for a very reasonable price.
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A guide that tells you all you want to know and quite a bit more,
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This review is from: Suffolk (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) (Hardcover)
This is a book for serious-minded people who already have some basic knowledge of and an interest in English history and architecture. If you don't fall into that category don't even think about buying it. The style is thus relatively demanding and even slightly eccentric. Its great merit is that it gives information about buildings you would never have thought existed. For example, until I bought the book I'd always regarded Ipswich as somewhere better by-passed than visited, a place of office blocks in the centre, housing estates on the edge and terraced streets just about everywhere else. However Pevsner reveals its hidden if low-key treasures and justifies a visit. The worst aspect of the book is that Pevsner knows what he likes and has a vaguely disparaging attitude to anything he doesn't.
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