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Books Cumbria : History : Architecture : The Buildings of England - Cumbria, Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness

The Buildings of England - Cumbria, Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness

Matthew Hyde & Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
£35.00

This fully revised volume brings together the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland with the old Furness division of Lancashire, in a comprehensive architectural guide to one of England's most varied and rewarding regions.
At its heart is the Lake District, where the well-loved vernacular architecture is overlaid by centuries of buildings, Georgian to modern, that respond in diverse ways to the magnificent landscape. The less familiar areas outside the National Park have an equal fascination, with numerous historic towns, spectacular industrial monuments, and distinctive traditions of church-building and fortified great houses. Fine Victorian and Arts-and-Crafts architecture can be found throughout, much of it published here for the first time.

Publisher : Yale
Published : October 2010
Pages : 776
Format : 126mm x 222mm hardback
Illustrations : Colour photographs and black & white line drawings
ISBN : 9780300126631

The Buildings of England - Cumbria, Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness
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Matthew Hyde has produced the definitive guide to the buildings of Cumbria for the next fifty years. This comprehensive survey of all the buildings of the county that have any architectural interest is an essential companion for anyone who visits churches or castles or country homes or who simply enjoys travelling around the county having his eyes opened to the richness and variety of buildings we have around us. Unlike Nikolaus Pevsner, his legendary predecessor, Matthew Hyde also has time to look at industrial buildings and housing estates and a wider range of vernacular building. The result is a book that is three times the size and yet equally overflowing with brightly presented scholarship.





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