From its foundation in 1132, Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire was home to as many as 650 monks, and became one of the most important Cistercian abbeys, both architecturally and spiritually. This, the first architectural study of the abbey, as well as a review of its 800 year history, looks at the building itself, and the surrounding structures and landscape. Through photographs, plans and reconstructions, Fergusson and Harrison make a detailed study of the infirmary, the walled precinct, the service buildings, and the church itself, producing an historical interpretation of history and function in terms of the abbey's religious and domestic life.

Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Arts & Photography

Fergusson, Peter

Harrison, Stuart

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building program that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as archbishop of Canterbury. Masterminded by Prior Wibert, the renewal included the physical expansion of the cathedral's precinct, the construction of new buildings, and the installation of a pioneering pressurized water system. This ambitious undertaking utilized a Late Romanesque style, lavish materials, and sculpture, and drew on the optimism and creative energy of the young Angevin rulers of England, Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. 
Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket reassesses the surviving remains and relates them to important changes in Benedictine monasticism concerned with hospitality, hygiene, the administration of law, liturgy, and the care of the sick. It also restores to history a neglected major patron of unusual breadth and accomplishments. Peter Fergusson sheds fresh light on the social and cultural history of the mid-12th century.

Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket

Paul Mellon Centre

The description for this book, Architecture of Solitude: Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England, will be forthcoming.

Architecture of Solitude: Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

Roche Abbey (English Heritage Red Guides)

English Heritage

The landscape and architecture of Wellesley College have long been recognized as combining to create one of the masterpieces of campus design in North America. In eleven chapters richly illustrated with vintage and contemporary images, this book details the 125-year evolution of the park-like composition of meadows, woods, and buildings sited on the shore of a characteristic New England glacial lake. The authors set this story into the wider context of landscape and architectural studies, as well as Wellesley own institutional development. As such this book joins an important series of recent publications celebrating the history of American college campuses.

The Landscape & Architecture of Wellesley College

James F. O´Gorman & John Rhodes

Architecture

Wellesley College

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