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NORTHUMBERLAND
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Nikolaus Pevsner, Grace McCombie, Peter Ryder |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300096380 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300096385 |
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| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1992 |
| Series: |
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England |
| Pages: |
704 |
| Description: |
The county's varied military architecture, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. This work also covers great country houses. |
| Synopsis: |
The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures. |
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64pp illustrations |
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US |
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Yale University Press |
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