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Northamptonshire
Bruce A. Bailey
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Description for Northamptonshire
Hardback. Covers some of England's grandest country houses in Northamptonshire such as the Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late seventeenth-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston and the interiors of Althorp that provide a survey of changing taste through the centuries. Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides. Num Pages: 800 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMM; AMKH; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 134 x 41. Weight in Grams: 848.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Condition
New
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300185072
SKU
V9780300185072
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About Bruce A. Bailey
Bruce Bailey is a Northamptonshire man and has contributed to both of the previous editions of the guide to the county in this series. He serves as archivist at Drayton House and for the Althorp Estate.
Reviews for Northamptonshire
Pevsner's achievement in visiting and writing about every building of architectural importance in England was breathtaking. . . Bailey, without lowering the tone, is more expansive and easier to read, and he tells us much more about the families and craftsmen responsible for these buildings than Pevsner had the space to do. -Alexander Chancellor, The Spectator
Alexander Chancellor
The Spectator
I walked over the fields to Rushton on a fresh sunny morning this week to try out the new Pevsner Buildings of England volume, Northamptonshire, which Harry Mount wrote about on Monday. We agree that the series is unequalled in the world. -Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph
Christopher Howse
Daily Telegraph
The Pevsner architectural guides to the counties of Britain are crammed with . . . tiny fascinating details. Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre in British Art . . . must be praised for this work of scholarship, unequalled in the world. -Harry Mount, The Daily Telegraph
Harry Mount
Daily Telegraph
The newly revised Pevsner addition to Northamptonshire shows the county batting well above its size in numbers of fine buildings. -Marcus Binney, The Times
Marcus Binney
The Times
Alexander Chancellor
The Spectator
I walked over the fields to Rushton on a fresh sunny morning this week to try out the new Pevsner Buildings of England volume, Northamptonshire, which Harry Mount wrote about on Monday. We agree that the series is unequalled in the world. -Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph
Christopher Howse
Daily Telegraph
The Pevsner architectural guides to the counties of Britain are crammed with . . . tiny fascinating details. Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre in British Art . . . must be praised for this work of scholarship, unequalled in the world. -Harry Mount, The Daily Telegraph
Harry Mount
Daily Telegraph
The newly revised Pevsner addition to Northamptonshire shows the county batting well above its size in numbers of fine buildings. -Marcus Binney, The Times
Marcus Binney
The Times