The Styles of English Architecture

Arts & Photography

Pragnell, Hubert

Architecture

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

The Early History of Railway Tunnels

History

World

Pen and Sword Transport

This book presents a broad outline of the development of architectural styles and movements in Britain. Designed to encourage readers to go out and explore, a concise but extremely readable text provides the cultural and historical contexts necessary to understand the place of a building in architectural development, with the author's own line drawings illustrating important examples. Chapters cover the Anglo-Norman Romanesque style and the transition to Gothic, medieval parish churches, castles and houses, Tudor architecture, Jacobean domestic building, and two seminal figures in architectural history, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. The story continues with Mannerism, the Baroque, Palladianism, early examples of town planning, including Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh New Town, neo-Classicism and the Gothic revival, and finishes with the movements and styles that have characterized this century. Both a pocket guidebook and a compact history of architecture, Britain, A Guide To Architectural Styles will enable anyone interested in our built heritage to see it with more knowledgeable eyes.

Britain: A Guide to Architectural Styles from 1066 to the Present Day Second Edition

Europe

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

This pocket guidebook will enable interested in anyone British heritage to see it with more knowledgeable eyes.The concise but readable text provides the cultural and historical contexts necessary to understand a building's architectural development. Many are well know, such as the works of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren; others are relatively obscure.

Britain: A Guide to Architectural Styles from 1066 to the Present Day

This book evokes one of the most interesting and beautiful cities in the world. Its richness and diversity are captured here in a series of skilful, atmospheric paintings. These include panoramas and detailed views, and as well as the university buildings themselves, there are scenes of university life, the meadows and bustling streetscapes of the modern city. Each picture is accompanied by an authoritative text which identifies the buildings and gives details of their histories. Hubert Pragnell is a tutor for the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and a member of Kellogg College. He studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing &amp; Fine Art, Oxford, and has a degree in history from the University of Kent. For many years he was head of History of Art at The King's School, Canterbury. He has written and illustrated a number of books on various aspects of architecture, including industrial buildings, as well as architectural plans of towns and historic buildings, including Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He works largely in watercolour, pastel and pen and ink and has exhibited widely, including with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Gallery.

Oxford in Watercolours

Painting

Spire Books

Designed to encourage readers to explore, this fascinating primer provides the context needed to understand the place of a building in architectural history, with the author's own drawings and atmospheric photographs from the National Trust illustrating important examples. Both a guide and a compact history in very accessible language, this book will enable anyone interested in Britain's built heritage to see it with new and more knowledgeable eyes. The book covers the following styles: Norman Style, Transition to Gothic, Gothic Cathedral, Medieval Parish Church, Castle and Medieval Manor House, The Medieval House, Tudor Architecture, The Jacobean House, Inigo Jones, 17th-century Mannerism, Sir Christopher Wren, Baroque Style, Palladian Movement, Advent of Town Planning, New Styles and New Materials, Gothic Survival and Revival, Victorian Gothic, from the Forth Bridge to the Millennium Dome, and the early 21st century. 

Architectural Britain: From 1066 to the Present Day

National Trust

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