PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDES Newsletter 2014/15 RECENT PUBLICATIONS Cornwall, revised by Peter Beacham, marks a significant milestone in the history of the series. Cornwall was the first county volume to be published in 1951, setting the pattern for all its successors. A full revision and update is long overdue and the new edition brings to bear over sixty years of scholarship on the county’s architecture in a full reappraisal of Pevsner’s descriptions of churches, country houses, towns, villages and industrial buildings.
ISBN 978 0 300 12668 6 May £35
‘How can you not visit [Cornwall] again with the new Pevsner in hand?’ John Goodall, Country Life, May 2014
ISBN 978 0 300 20821 4 September £35
Cambridgeshire, revised by Simon Bradley, is the first comprehensive re-survey of the county by the Buildings of England since Pevsner’s edition of 1954. The descriptions of the rural areas and towns have been transformed by new research and discoveries, the great cathedral at Ely not excepted. But it is Cambridge itself, with its ancient University and colleges, that has pride of place, including one of the best concentrations of outstanding postwar architecture in Britain.
Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, revised by Charles O’Brien, is an entirely fresh look at some of England’s least-known counties, last visited by Pevsner in 1968. There is great variety in architecture in Bedfordshire, from Woburn Abbey to the magnificent gardens at Wrest Park and belle époque luxury at Luton Hoo, and from the buildings of Luton’s hat industry to the picturesque Swiss Garden at Old Warden. Huntingdonshire and Peterborough are no less varied, from the great cathedral to Burghley House, and from the famous Huntingdonshire churches to the remarkable model settlement at Thorney on the edge of the Fens. ‘This has been a vintage 12 months for revisions of Pevsner’s Buildings of England.’ Simon Heffer, Standpoint, Oct. 2014 ISBN 978 0 300 20740 8 November £35
Bridgwater, Market Hall. From the Buildings of England volume, Somerset: South and West
ISBN 978 0 300 20596 1 October £35
‘Undeniably, the Buildings of England is a stupendous achievement, unequalled in any other country.’ Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, May 2014
Somerset: South and West, revised by Julian Orbach, completes the two-part survey of the county, replacing Pevsner’s volume from 1958. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the landscape is enriched by buildings of outstanding quality and interest. The early medieval ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and the Elizabethan great house of Montacute are among the finest works of their time. Also famous are the lavishly decorated Perpendicular church towers. The ports and resorts of the long coastline have their own distinctive architectural inheritance, and well-kept vernacular houses and other rural buildings complete the inland picture.
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