The Historic Architecture of Wales: An Introduction

Arts & Photography

Hilling, John B

Architecture

University of Wales Press

Drawing on a number of sources, ranging from official to published and private material, a study of the many aspects of the RAF bomber airfield at Downham Market in East Anglia. Each chapter concentrates on a separate aspect of life at the airfield and on the bomber operations flown from there.

Strike Hard: A Bomber Airfield at War, RAF Downham Market and Its Squadrons 1942-46

History

Military

Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.

RAF Downham Market and its squadrons 1942-6. A fascinating microcosm of Bomber Command during WW2 which includes material from private sources never published before.

Strike Hard: A Bomber Airfield at War : Raf Downham Market and Its Squadrons 1942-46

Sutton Pub Ltd

Cardiff and the valleys;: Architecture and townscape

Lund Humphries

Cadw Guidebook: Cilgerran Castle, St Dogmaels Abbey: Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber, Carreg Coetan Arthur Burial Chamber (Cadw Guidebook)

Travel

Europe

Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments

Plans & prospects: Architecture in Wales, 1780-1914

Welsh Arts Council

Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised book meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation’s life from Roman times to the present century—less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is also illustrated with 268 color and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans, and maps.

The Architecture of Wales: From the First to the Twenty - First Century

<p>This book explores the wealth of wooden architecture that is to be found in the Fennoscandian Peninsula. This distinct region, which includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Russian Republic of Karelia, was dominated by coniferous forest. Wood was seen as a living material--one that was permeated with myth and folklore--while the forest itself formed the background to everyday life. This is the first book to examine and record the distinctive wooden architecture of this region from the early medieval period to the early 20th century. Structured according to different wood types, it concentrates on domestic and religious buildings. It begins by setting out the geographical, social, and historic background, before discussing the way in which two different timber-building traditions emerged in the region. It then provides a detailed examination of different types of dwellings. The book concludes by outlining the development of wooden domestic and religious buildings during the closing decades of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century.</p>

The Wooden Architecture of Northern Europe: From the Viking Era to the 20th Century

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