Borders – The Buildings of Scotland Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland) - Hardcover

Cruft, Kitty; Dunbar, John; Fawcett, Richard

 
9780300107029: Borders – The Buildings of Scotland Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300107021 ISBN 13: 9780300107029
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Scottish Borders, one of the most architecturally enticing regions of Scotland, encompass rocky coastlines, rolling moors, and farmland. The early buildings reflect a history of conflict, as do the ruins of the numerous great Borders abbeys. The River Tweed provides a delightful setting for the burghs of Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, and Kelso, where small weavers’ cottages and colossal nineteenth-century mills remain from the once-mighty textile industry.
The region boasts country houses of exceptional quality and importance, including Thirlestane Castle, Traquair, and Paxton as well as Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, which is world-renowned as the fount of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Other highlights of this comprehensive guide are little-known shooting and fishing lodges, rural steadings, arts and crafts villas, Art Deco schools, and the extraordinary Sunderland House, a building of Miesian purity by Peter Womersley.

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About the Author

Kitty Cruft is former curator of the National Monuments Record of Scotland. John Dunbar was Secretary of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland from 1978 to 1990. Richard Fawcett is principal inspector of ancient monuments with Historic Scotland.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0300107021
ISBN 13 
9780300107029
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
841