County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) - Hardcover

Pevsner, N

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300095996 ISBN 13: 9780300095999

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1983

Synopsis

The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.

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"The greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world." -- Jonathan Meades, The Observer, 25th November 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0300095996
• ISBN 13: 9780300095999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 574