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Charles O'Brien Ian Nairn

Surrey

Charles O'Brien,  Ian Nairn,  Bridget Cherry

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English
Yale University Press
23 February 2023
Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial
Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
A newly expanded volume on England’s preeminent “Home County,” exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildings

Surrey is the preeminent “Home County.” For centuries it has been the playground for London and its towns and villages home to thousands of its daily commuters by rail. Yet much of Surrey is still rural and rich in churches and timber-framed, tilehung cottages and farmhouses in landscapes saved more than a century ago by some of the earliest altruistic campaigns to protect from the spread of development.

 

This revised edition, the first since 1971, revisits Surrey’s major monuments such as Waverley Abbey and Farnham Castle but also extends its scope to a wide diversity of structures of the more recent past with greater appreciation of the twentieth century, from Modernist villas to Guildford's Cathedral and Postmodern Business Parks. Greater coverage is given to its many towns, eighteenth-century landscape gardens, and the remains of its industrial heritage. The guide once more brings to the fore the county's unrivaled collection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture from the celebrated houses by Philip Webb, Norman Shaw, Lutyens, Voysey, and their multiple disciples to major institutions like Royal Holloway College and Charterhouse School.

 
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Imprint:   Yale University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 114mm, 
ISBN:   9780300234787
ISBN 10:   0300234783
Series:   Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Pages:   940
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Charles O’Brien is joint series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and author and contributor to several volumes in the series.

Reviews for Surrey

“Objective, detailed and comprehensive.”—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph “It aims to profile architecture of quality both familiar and unfamiliar. It’s a task this volume undertakes in exemplary fashion (despite the challenge of being prepared in part during the pandemic). Even allowing for the fact that Surrey has been subject to destructive and sprawling development, what this volume really demonstrates is the astonishing amount there is for the architectural enthusiast of every period to enjoy in the county.”—John Goodall, Country Life “As the great series draws to a close, it has never looked better.”—Andrew Saint, Victorian Magazine “Much bigger and far more comprehensive than its predecessors, hugely improved by the splendid colour photographs, many by Robert Forster.”—James Stevens, The Critic


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