Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) - Hardcover

Brooks, Alan; Sherwood, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300209304 ISBN 13: 9780300209303

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as notable town architecture and the medieval parish churches for which the area is well known. Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the late flowering of Lutyens's 1930s Middleton Park; the grandest, however, is Blenheim Palace, the Baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).

About this title

Review:

"England is blessed in having a Pevsner architectural guide to each county. A long-term project of scholarship of the sort in which this country shines, it is all the better for help of Yale as publishers."--Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph 3 June 2017-- (06/03/2017)

About the Author:

Alan Brooks is the author or co-author of four previous volumes in the revised Buildings of England series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0300209304
• ISBN 13: 9780300209303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736