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Oxfordshire North and West
Alan Brooks
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Description for Oxfordshire North and West
Hardback. Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England. Num Pages: 736 pages, 120 color illus. BIC Classification: AMG; AMGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 114. .
This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as notable town architecture and the medieval parish churches for which the area is well known. Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the late flowering of Lutyens's 1930s Middleton Park; the grandest, however, is Blenheim Palace, the Baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).
This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as notable town architecture and the medieval parish churches for which the area is well known. Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the late flowering of Lutyens's 1930s Middleton Park; the grandest, however, is Blenheim Palace, the Baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300209303
SKU
V9780300209303
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Ref
99-50
About Alan Brooks
Alan Brooks is the author or co-author of four previous volumes in the revised Buildings of England series.
Reviews for Oxfordshire North and West
England is blessed in having a Pevsner architectural guide to each county. A long-term project of scholarship of the sort in which this country shines, it is all the better for help of Yale as publishers. -Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph 3 June 2017
Christopher Howse
The Daily Telegraph
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Christopher Howse
The Daily Telegraph
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