Northamptonshire Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bailey, Bruce (Author), Pevsner, Nikolaus (Author), Cherry, Bridget (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300185073 ISBN-13: 9780300185072 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - General - Travel | Europe - Great Britain - Architecture | Regional |
Dewey: 720.9 |
Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England |
Physical Information: 1.59" H x 4.6" W x 9.24" (1.92 lbs) 800 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton and the evocative New Beild at Lyveden. Of no less interest are the fine churches, from Anglo-Saxon Brixworth to the noble Gothic of Warmington, Rushden and Finedon and from All Saints, Northampton, one of the grandest 17th-century churches outside London, to Comper's St. Mary's, Wellingborough. Chief among the towns, Northampton has not only distinguished Victorian and Edwardian public, commercial and industrial buildings but also the principal work in England by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. |