Pevsner newsletter 2017/18

PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDES Newsletter 2017/18 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2017 has seen the launch of two important additions to the revised Buildings of England series.

Oxfordshire: North and West, revised by Alan Brooks. Hailed as ‘wonderful’ by the Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Howse, this fully revised and expanded guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire is based on Jennifer Sherwood’s highly regarded 1974 account. Here is a largely unspoilt landscape of stone-built towns, villages and country houses, rich too in medieval parish churches, including outstanding Decorated work of the fourteenth century at Adderbury and Bloxham. The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is covered in depth, as are urban buildings, including those of the exceptionally rewarding wool towns of Burford and Chipping Norton. But Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to Blenheim Palace, Vanbrugh’s Baroque masterpiece, and Lutyens’s 1930s Middleton Park.

A second volume is in preparation, covering the city of Oxford and the historic county to the south-east.

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, revised by Ruth Harman.

Com­panion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (2009), the new volume expands and brings up to date the accounts of the major towns in ISBN 978 0 300 20930 3 the southern area of the West Riding, among them Doncaster, Halifax, HudMay 2017 £35 dersfield and Wakefield with their outstanding eighteenth and nineteenth century ecclesiastical, civic, commercial and industrial buildings. Smaller towns and villages are spread across a remarkably varied landscape, from the rolling hills of Calderdale, rich in clothiers’ houses and textile mills, to the flat fenland along the River Ouse. Major examples of every period of English architecture are represented, from medieval Selby Abbey to the Sheffield Council flats at Park Hill. ‘This volume describes one of the great architectural treasure grounds in Britain’ (Marcus Binney, The Times).

ISBN 978 0 300 22468 9 September 2017 £35

David W. Lloyd, who died in September of this year, was Pevsner’s co-author for the original volume on Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1967). It is an area he knew exceptionally well, having been born in Southampton in 1925 and having later taught at Portsmouth Polytechnic. His background as a planner brought a perceptiveness to his treatment of the towns and villages of the county – a quality noted by Pevsner – and David returned to writing for the series with his guide to the Isle of Wight in 2006. His interest continued in the revision of the volume for the southern area of the county for which he had undertaken extensive research. During his life David was also deeply involved with the work of the Victorian Society, the SPAB, the Diocesan Advisory Committee for Chelmsford and many other bodies.

The S.S. Teulon, by Peter Clarke and Tom Greaves, c. 1962. David Lloyd is on the bowsprit, in characteristic attitude.

Also caricatured are Pevsner (bottom left, with mortarboard) and John Betjeman (next to him, ringing a bell).

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Forthcoming publications for 2018 INTRODUCTIONS coming soon in paperback

978 0 300 23342 1 February 2018 £8.99

978 0 300 23343 8 February 2018 £8.99

The first two handbooks in our Pevsner Intro­ductions, Churches by Simon Bradley and Houses by Charles O’Brien, have proved so popular that in February 2018 we will be issuing them in paperback.

Written by the joint editors of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, and distilling years of experience visiting buildings, these are books for anyone who would like to understand more about England’s architectural history, and at £8.99 they are exceptionally good value.

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ISBN 978 0 300 22478 8 May 2018 £35

Dorset, revised by Michael Hill. ‘Everybody tells you Dorset is a house or mansion county, not a church county… Yet when one sets down all one has seen of Dorset churches … one suddenly realises how much one has enjoyed,’ wrote Pevsner. The county provides many unexpected pleasures in ecclesiastical buildings, from the Norman arches of Wimborne Minster and the Early English solemnity of Milton Abbey to the splendour of Sherborne and the monuments and furnishings of numerous smaller buildings. Among castles, mansions and houses, Dorset boasts the evocative ruins of Corfe, the splendid Kingston Lacy, mighty Milton Abbey House, and a wealth of more modest homes. But the county also possesses fine towns and villages, from early eighteenth-century Blandford and elegant Georgian Weymouth and Lyme Regis, to the estate village of Milton Abbas.

Hampshire: South, revised by Charles O’Brien (with Bruce Bailey and Simon Bradley). This volume, compan­ ion to Hampshire:Winchester and the North, covers the county’s southern half including the New Forest and Bournemouth. The gazetteer describes everything of significance from the Roman castle at Portchester to the major Norman churches at Romsey and Christ­church, the ruins of the Bishop of Winchester’s palace at Bishops Waltham and the remains of the great post-Dissolution houses at Beaulieu and Titchfield. Architecture in the towns and cities ranges from the defensive town wall at Southampton to the brick, stone and stuccoed houses of the Georgian and Regency aristocracy and gentry, and from marine villas along the coast and river estuaries to the magnificent naval and military architecture of Portsmouth and Gosport.

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Central Leinster by Andrew Tierney.

This historically rich region comprises the borderlands of the medieval Pale, the territory of the great house of Kildare, and the former Gaelic-Irish hinterlands of King’s (Offaly) and Queen’s (Laois) counties. Early monasticism is best represented at Clonmacnoise (pictured), with its Hiberno-Romanesque ruins, sculpted crosses and round towers.

ISBN 978 0 300 23204 2 Georgian streetscapes characterise November 2018 £35 Mountmellick, Portarlington, and the Duke of Leinster’s Maynooth. Country houses include Palladian Castletown and Carton, neoclassical Abbey Leix and Emo, and Francis Johnston’s romantic castle at Charleville Forest. The region also has Catholic buildings by Pugin and his Irish acolyte J. J. McCarthy, and late Church of Ireland showpieces such as J. F. Fuller’s fusions of Continental and native Romanesque.

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