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Author : Candida Lycett Green
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Perfect English Country House written by Candida Lycett Green and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Cowell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650586
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The British Country House Revival written by Ben Cowell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history. This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.
Author : John Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300095982
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Dorset written by John Newman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1972-03-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody tells you Dorset is a house or mansion county, not a church county...Yet when one sets down all one has seen of Dorset churches...one suddenly realises how much one has enjoyed", wrote Pevsner at the conclusion of his journey. The county provides many unexpected pleasures in ecclesiastical buildings, from the Norman arches of Wimborne Minster, the Early English solemnity of Milton Abbey, to the splendour of Sherborne and the monuments and furnishings of numerous smaller buildings. Of castles, mansions and houses, Dorset boasts the evocative ruins of Corfe; the splendid Kingston Lacy; mighty Milton Abbey House and a wealth of more modest homes. But the county also possesses fine towns and villages, from the Georgian elegance of Weymouth and Lyme Regis, to the model estate village of Milton Abbas.
Author : Anthony Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139449199
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.
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Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Introduction to the Great Western Railway Sea-side, Farm House and Country Lodging List written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona Taylor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445684861
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Weymouth & Portland at Work written by Fiona Taylor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weymouth & Portland at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the Dorset towns of Weymouth and Portland in the last hundred and more years.
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Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Local Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.
Author : Andor Harvey Gomme
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126457
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Design and Plan in the Country House written by Andor Harvey Gomme and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in the community. And his house or castle offers many clues to his habits as well as those of the members of his household. This intriguing book explores the evolution of country house plans throughout Britain and Ireland, from medieval times to the eighteenth century. With photographs and detailed architectural plans of each house under discussion, the book presents a whole range of new insights into how these homes were designed and what their varied designs tell us about the lives of their residents. Starting with fortified medieval tower houses, the book traces patterns that developed and sometimes repeated in country house design over the centuries. It discusses who slept in the bedchambers, where food was prepared, how rooms were arranged for official and private activities, what towers signified, and more. Groundbreaking in its depth, the volume offers a rare tour of country houses for scholar and general reader alike.
Author : Eileen Spiegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English Farm House written by Eileen Spiegel and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard John
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1920744541
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Robert Adam written by Richard John and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addition to the 'New Classicists' series features the work of Robert Adam Architects Ltd, one of the leading practitioners of of traditional design in the UK. The practice manages a broad portfolio of work including house conversions and additions.
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian M. Luxford
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843831538
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540 written by Julian M. Luxford and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended in the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize 2007 The patronage of Benedictine art and architecture, and the circumstances that made it possible and desirable, reveal much about the ambitions, beliefs and allegiances of both the order and those who interacted with it; moreover, analysis of such patronage also improves our understanding of some of the most important and beautiful buildings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass and other artefacts surviving from the middle ages.In this survey, focussing on the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries in south-west England (including Glastonbury) during the 240 years leading up to the dissolution of the religious orders under Henry VIII, the author discusses the question in terms of 'internal' practice, initiated by Benedictine monks and nuns, and 'external' practice, for which non-monastic agents were responsible; and analyses the historical circumstances affecting the commission and the purchase of art and architecture. Throughout, he takes care to situate the study of buildings and their embellishment within the broader context of Benedictine culture. The text is lavishly illustrated with forty-five black and white plates of art, architecture and documents, many of which have not previously been reproduced. Dr JULIAN M. LUXFORD is Lecturer at the School of Art History, St Andrews University.
Author : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1446 pages
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Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Wright
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781851453177
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Classic Country House Hotels written by Carol Wright and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
