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The Buildings Of England Gloucestershire Vale And Forest Of Dean
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Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.
Book Synopsis The Buildings of England by : Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Download or read book The Buildings of England written by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buildings of England by : Alan Brooks and David Verey Staff
Download or read book Buildings of England written by Alan Brooks and David Verey Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Buildings of England by : Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Download or read book The Buildings of England written by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: Vale and Forest of Dean by : Nikolaus Pevsner
Download or read book The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: Vale and Forest of Dean written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by . This book was released on 1976-03-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worcestershire written by Alan Brooks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed.: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Book Synopsis Anderson’s Travel Companion by : Compiled by Sarah Anderson
Download or read book Anderson’s Travel Companion written by Compiled by Sarah Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.
Book Synopsis The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780 by : S. Hague
Download or read book The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780 written by S. Hague and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social mobility in the British Atlantic World characterized by incremental social change.
Book Synopsis Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol by : Mike Osborne
Download or read book Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol written by Mike Osborne and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important throughout the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The Normans built substantial castles at Bristol, Gloucester and Berkeley, scene of Edward II's murder, with many more of earth and timber. Many figured in the conflicts between rival factions culminating in the Battle of Tewkesbury. In the Civil War, Bristol underwent two sieges and Gloucester another and one of the last battles, at Stow, followed continuous skirmishing. The next centuries saw volunteer forces established, formalised by the State by the end of Victoria's reign, to counter threats external and internal. A nascent aircraft industry would develop into aircraft factories and airfields in the First World War with further development of training and aircraft storage facilities for the newly formed RAF during the inter-War period. Anti-invasion defences were constructed in the Second World War, but the primary effort was in logistics: bases for arriving US troops; RAF and USAAF training airfields and depots; and communications facilities. This last aspect, along with intelligence gathering, continued into the Cold War and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Lost Abbey of Eynsham by : Steve Parrinder
Download or read book The Lost Abbey of Eynsham written by Steve Parrinder and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eynsham was one of the few religious foundations in England in continuous use from the late Saxon period to the Dissolution. This book aims to rescue this important abbey from obscurity by summarising its history and examining its material remains, most of which have never been published before.
Download or read book Kempe written by Adrian Barlow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a full account of the life of Charles Eamer Kempe, based on archives of the Kempe Trust and on the author’s own extensive researches. In particular, the book explores the importance of his family and family connections; his experiences as a student at Oxford and the development of his future network of friends and clients.
Book Synopsis Sir John Soane? Influence on Architecture from 1791 by : Oliver Bradbury
Download or read book Sir John Soane? Influence on Architecture from 1791 written by Oliver Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Soane?s Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect?s impact on the work of others, extending globally and still indeed the case over 200 years later. Author Oliver Bradbury presents a compelling argument that the influence of Soane (1753-1837) has persevered through the centuries, rather than waning around the time of his death. Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects from Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Philip Johnson, as well as a number of not so well known Soanean disciples, Bradbury posits that Soane is perhaps second only to Palladio in terms of the longevity of his influence on architecture through the course of more than two centuries, from the early 1790s to today, concluding with the recent return to pure revivalism. Previous investigations have been limited to focusing on Soane?s late-Georgian and then post-modern influence; this is the first in-depth study of his impact over the course of two centuries. Through this survey, Bradbury demonstrates that Soane?s influence has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detailed case studies, Bradbury contends that Soane?s is a continuing, not negated, legacy in architecture.
Book Synopsis A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History by : Richard Barras
Download or read book A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History written by Richard Barras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new buildings is strong, structural and stylistic innovations abound, and there is fierce competition to build for lasting fame. Each such climax produces a unique vintage of hegemonic buildings that are monuments to the wealth and power of those who ruled their world. This first volume provides an introduction to the study of wealth accumulation over the past millennium. There follow three case studies of iconic building investment from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries the conquering Norman kings and barons erected castles throughout the country to cement their feudal power. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the great wealth of the ecclesiastical estates funded the lavish construction of Gothic cathedrals and abbeys. During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Tudor and Jacobean magnates vied to build the most magnificent palaces and prodigy houses. The English Revolution brought this era to a close.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580 by : David Gaimster
Download or read book The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580 written by David Gaimster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the Reformation has been viewed as responsible for the rupture of the medieval order and the foundation of modern society. Recently historians have challenged the stereotypical model of cataclysm, and demonstrated that the religion of Tudor England was full of both continuities and adaptations of traditional liturgy, ritual and devoti
