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Britain : a guide to architectural styles from 1066 to the present day / Hubert Pragnell.
LIBRA NA961 .P7 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pragnell, Hubert J. (Hubert John)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Great Britain--History.
- Architecture.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 350 pages : illustrations ; 11 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Guide to architectural styles from 1066 to the present day
- Place of Publication:
- London : Batsford, 2002.
- Summary:
- Designed to encourage readers to go out and explore, this pocket-sized, portable guidebook to British architecture--now in its third edition--provides a delightful primer on building styles. It's packed with informative and charming drawings; presents a broad outline of the development of different movements; and gives the cultural and historical contexts needed to understand the place of a building in architectural history. Among the buildings that receive specific attention are the magnificent medieval interior of the Cathedral in Canterbury; Burghley House in Lincolnshire, the perfect example of a Tudor dwelling; the Baroque Castle Howard in Yorkshire; and the Manchester Town Hall, perhaps the grandest of all the Gothic civil halls.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Ellipsis, 1995.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0713487887
- OCLC:
- 50654516
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