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Kent: North East and East
The Buildings of England
John Newman
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The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated and
expanded edition of John Newman’s classic survey, first published in 1969. The city of Canterbury
is the county’s greatest treasure, and its glorious cathedral is the first mature example of Gothic
architecture in England. The influence of Canterbury appears also in the remains of St Augustine’s
seventh-century mission churches, and in sophisticated Norman carved work at churches such as
Barfrestone.
Kent is also a maritime county, and its coastal towns are excitingly diverse: the royal stronghold of
Dover with its mighty medieval castle; the medieval port of Sandwich; and resorts large and small,
from genteel Folkestone to lively Margate, with its bold new art gallery.
John Newman’s other volumes for the Pevsner Architectural Guides include Kent: West and the Weald
(2012), Shropshire (2006), and Glamorgan and Gwent/Monmouthshire in the Buildings of Wales
series.
October 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18506-5 £35.00*
Northamptonshire
The Buildings of England
Bruce Bailey
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.
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.
Pevsner Architectural Guides
September 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18507-2 £35.00*
Powys
The Buildings of Wales
Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam
The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire are described in this final
volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979.
Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampments, Early Christian monuments,
ruined castles and the enigmatic remains of early industry enhance the landscapes of this wild and
beautiful region. Atmospheric medieval churches survive in quantity, together with diverse
Nonconformist chapels. Vernacular traditions are represented by robust medieval cruck-framed
houses, and by the manor houses and farmhouses of the Tudors and Stuarts. Other highlights
include Montgomery, with its beguiling Georgian heritage, the Victorian spa at Llandrindod Wells,
and Powis Castle, with its Baroque interiors and terraced gardens.
Robert Scourfield is Buildings Conservation Officer for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Authority, and co-author of Pembrokeshire (2004) and Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (2006) in
the Buildings of Wales series. Richard Haslam is the author of the first edition of Powys, and
co-author of the Buildings of Wales volume on Gwynedd (2009).
November 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18508-9 £35.00*