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Lancashire: Liverpool and the southwest / by Richard Pollard and Nikolaus Pevsner ; with contributions from Joseph Sharples.
LIBRA NA969.L3 P64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollard, Richard, 1971-
- Series:
- Pevsner architectural guides
- Buildings of England
- The buildings of England
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--England--Lancashire--Guidebooks.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--England--Liverpool--Guidebooks.
- Buildings--England--Lancashire--Guidebooks.
- Buildings.
- England--Lancashire.
- England--Liverpool.
- Buildings--England--Liverpool--Guidebooks.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 745 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and in this distinctive landscape are found such memorable buildings as Sefton church, Speke Hall, and the Georgian country houses of Knowsley, ancestral seat of the Earls of Derby, and Ince Blundell, with its extraordinary Neoclassical sculpture gallery. Numerous maps and plans, color photographs, indexes, and an illustrated glossary complete this volume.
- Contents:
- Geology and building stones / Fred Broadhurst
- Prehistoric South-West Lancashire / R.W. Cowell
- South-Wet Lancashire from the Roman conquest to the middle ages / Robert A. Philpott
- Church architecture to the seventeenth century
- Domestic and other secular architecture to c. 1700
- The eighteenth century
- South-West Lancashire in the Industrial Revolution
- Architecture in the early nineteenth century
- Victorian and Edwardian developments
- The inter-war years
- South-West years
- South-West Lancashire from 1945
- Further readings
- South-West Lancashire
- Liverpool.
- Notes:
- This book is based on sections of Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South Lancashire' and 'North Lancashire', both published in 1969"--acknowledgements.
- "The text of this volume covering the centre of Liverpool and its environs has been condensed and adapted from that of the Pevsner city guide, 'Liverpool' (2004)--note on p. 3.
- "This in the second part of a planned three-volume survey of the buildings of Lancashire, revised and expanded from Nikolaus Pevsner's two books of 1969"--editor's foreward.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0300109105
- 9780300109108
- OCLC:
- 63396571
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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