Pevsner dedicated his original volume, on the Cities of London & Westminster, to the nights spent fire watching from Birkbeck College. Simon Bradley's revised volume, on the City alone, examines in detail the legacy of destruction and the subsequent reconstructions, in the aftermath of the War and in more recent memory, during the "boom" period from 1985-1993, when half of the City office space was rebuilt. Reconstruction on such a scale can only be compared with the rebuilding after the Great Fire when the City churches were designed by Sir Christopher Wren. His ingenuity is displayed in his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral; one amongst the many buildings which make up the City's rich architectural heritage. The guide describes a city both ancient and modern, ranging from Georgian masterpieces by Soane and Hawksmoor to lavish Victorian market buildings, from the iconoclastic Lloyd's building to the lesser known Livery Halls of the City Guilds.

London 1: The City of London

PEVSNER, Nikolaus

Bradley, Simon

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin Uk

A guide to the varied churches of the City of London. It details 50 churches, including many famous masterpieces by Sir Christopher Wren, the medieval St Helen Bishopsgate, the early Gothic Temple Church and England's one remaining 18th-century synagogue.

London: The City Churches

This essential guide opens up the treasures of London’s most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the great band of Royal Parks stretching westward toward Kensington. It also includes London’s West End (Covent Garden, Soho, Mayfair, and St. James’s) and the less well-known Belgravia and Pimlico. For each area there is a detailed gazetteer and brief introduction. A general introduction provides a historical and artistic overview. Numerous maps and plans, over 100 new color photographs, full indexes, and an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work and guide. This is the fifth of six Pevsner Architectural Guides volumes on London available in cloth.

London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Arts & Photography

Yale University Press

The City of London encompasses architecture of unsurpassed richness and variety, from the Tower of London to Richard Roger's iconoclastic Lloyd's building. This guide unlocks the city's treasures and investigates its growth.

London 1: The City of London (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Architecture

More than fifty astonishingly varied churches, a group of buildings without parallel anywhere in the world, are crowded into Europe's financial centre, the City of London. Simon Bradley explores their unique history, arcitecture, rich fittings and stained glass. Lost churches are listed, and their little known churchyards explored. Numerous text figures and excellent photographs (newly taken by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments) help make this the indispensable guide to the church architecture of London's ancient 'Square Mile'. London: The City Churches is the second paperback addition to Pevsner's Buildings of England series.

London: The City Churches (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

This work covers the English county of Berkshire. Stretching from the fringes of London, Berkshire originally covered much of present day Oxfordshire. The variety of architecture is, consequently, broad and remarkable, from the towns of the home counties to the farmhouses and churches of its west.

Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

TYACK, Geoffrey

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted to the famous university city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings including striking post-war additions. A combination of boldness and innovation may be found at Ely Cathedral, one of the greatest achievements of English medieval design. By comparison, the rest of the county remains surprisingly little known. Its largely unspoiled landscapes vary from the northern flat fen country to the rolling chalk uplands of the south and east; its architecture encompasses rewarding village churches, distinctive vernacular building in timber, stone, and brick, the former monastic sites at Denny and Anglesey, and the magnificent aristocratic seat of Wimpole Hall.

Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire\nThis updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a wealth of ambitious new buildings for the University and its colleges. Familiar buildings such as the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera are reinterpreted, and the many renovations and extensions are described and assessed. Oxford’s commercial buildings, suburbs, and houses are also explored in depth, including much that is published here for the first time. The county area extends from the outskirts of Oxford to Henley-on-Thames, following the historic Thameside boundary of Oxfordshire and taking in the hills of the southern Chilterns. Here the new volume includes fresh accounts of major country houses such as Nuneham Courtenay and Thame Park, new assessments of church restorations, furnishings, and stained glass, more inclusive coverage of commercial buildings in the towns and a fuller selection of vernacular and rural buildings across the whole of this attractive and rewarding part of England.

Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

SHERWOOD, Jennifer

History & Criticism

This accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of church architecture—stylistic developments, functional requirements, regional variations, and arcane vocabulary. Readers can equip themselves to explore historic churches knowledgeably, evaluate dates and restoration phases, interpret stained glass and monuments, and make their own discoveries. Written by one of the editors of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and distilling years of experience visiting churches, the book includes explanations of how to learn more from building plans, tips for further research, searching for clues, and analyzing the evidence. 

Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)

History

Europe

Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions) [paperback] Bradley, Simon [Mar 13, 2018]

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London 1: The City of London

London: The City Churches

London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

London 1: The City of London (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

London: The City Churches (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)

Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)