PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDES Newsletter 2015/16 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2015 has seen publication of two pairs of Buildings volumes, describing some of the richest architectural landscapes of England and Scotland.
ISBN 978 0 300 20428 5 May £35
ISBN 978 0 300 21555 7 November £35
New volumes for Aberdeenshire: North and Moray and Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen are the result of six years of dedicated research and fieldwork in the north-east of Scotland by Joseph Sharples, David W. Walker and Matthew Woodworth, supported by the University of ‘This great reference series … captures Aberdeen. This is one … the “real Scotland”, with its record of the most important of our past and present social structures, regions in Scotland’s our cosmopolitanism, our priorities, the architectural heritage. legacy of our atavistic compulsions.’ The authors have brought together in Colin Donald, Sunday Herald these two volumes lively descriptions of structures of breathtaking diversity, from some of the most notable medieval ecclesiastical buildings in the country to the humblest fisherman’s cottage and from the greatest tower houses of the Scottish Renaissance to the buildings of the North Sea Oil boom.
ISBN 978 0 300 19654 2 April £35
ISBN 978 0 300 19655 9 April £35
James Bettley’s two-volume revision of the original guide to Suffolk has divided the county into East and West, allowing for deeper exploration and evocation of the special character of each half of the county, and confirming Pevsner’s ‘This pair of volumes shows it is assertion that Suffolk’s one of the greatest treasure ‘… scenery and the troves of architecture that exists.’ buildings are a Marcus Binney, The Times delight’. The original descriptions of the architectural highlights of the county – its medieval churches, its timber-framed buildings – have been much enriched by new research, and the scope of investigation has been widened to draw attention for the first time to the built heritage of every century. Launched in April with an event at Ipswich’s University Campus Suffolk, the results have been warmly received.
Readers will be sorry to hear that Matthew Hyde died in September 2015, after a short illness. Matthew contributed three volumes to the revised Buildings of England series: Lancashire: Manchester and the South East (2004) and Cheshire (2011), both written jointly with Clare Hartwell, and Cumbria (2010). Matthew’s writing for the series is marked by a humane curiosity about people and places, and a gift for vivid and lively description. These interests are reflected in two more recent books, Arts and Crafts Houses of the Lake District, with Esmé Whittaker (Frances Lincoln, 2014), and Britain’s Lost Churches (Aurum, 2015). A lecture in Matthew’s memory is proposed for 2016, in his home town of Macclesfield. Author Day: Almost all the authors and researchers currently working on revising Buildings of England volumes met at Yale’s offices in October for a day of discussions about working methods, problems encountered, the editorial and production process, and an excellent talk given by Catherine Croft of the 20th Century Society on the interactions between the C20 and Pevsner.
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