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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Index Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. [1]

79 relations: Alistair John Rowan, Allen Lane, Architecture, BBC, Benjamin Whitrow, Black Country, Bridget Cherry, Buildings of the United States, CD-ROM, City of London, Coldstream Bridge, Colin McWilliam, Coventry, Craig Brown (satirist), Cumbria, Dan Cruickshank, Dartford Crossing, Edward Hubbard, English Heritage, Erskine Bridge, Essex, Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge, Frank Arneil Walker, Furness, Germaine Greer, Germans, Germany, Great Britain, Greater London, Guide book, Historic counties of England, History of architecture, Humber Bridge, International Standard Book Number, Ireland, Janet Street-Porter, Joan Bakewell, John Newman (architectural historian), Jonathan Meades, Kent, Kincardine Bridge, Lancashire, London boroughs, Lucinda Lambton, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Michael Bracewell, Middlesex, Mobile app, Nikolaus Pevsner, ..., Non-metropolitan county, Northern Ireland, Oxford University Press, Patrick Wright (historian), Penguin Books, Penguin Collectors Society, Philip Hoare, Philippa Gregory, Provinces of Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, Scotland, Second Severn Crossing, Sedbergh, Severn Bridge, Surrey, Survey of London, Tamar Bridge, Tay Rail Bridge, Tay Road Bridge, The King's England, Vernacular architecture, Victoria County History, Wales, Warwickshire, West Midlands (county), West Riding of Yorkshire, West Sussex, Yale University Press. Expand index (29 more) »

Alistair John Rowan

Alistair John Rowan is an Irish architectural historian, a professor and author of Irish architectural history and current Professor of History of Art at University College, Cork (U.C.C.).Official Website (Accessed 19 December 2010) Rowan was an architectural writer with Country Life before 1967, when he became Lecturer in Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh.

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Allen Lane

Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Benjamin Whitrow

Benjamin John Whitrow (17 February 1937 – 28 September 2017) was an English actor.

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Black Country

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Bridget Cherry

Bridget Cherry OBE, FSA, Hon.

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Buildings of the United States

Buildings of the United States is a multi-volume series of illustrated reference works.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Coldstream Bridge

Coldstream Bridge, linking Coldstream, Scottish Borders with Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, is an 18th-century Grade II* listed bridge between England and Scotland, across the River Tweed.

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Colin McWilliam

Colin McWilliam (1928–1989) was a British architecture academic and author.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Craig Brown (satirist)

Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank (born 26 August 1949) is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture.

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Dartford Crossing

The Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing, commonly known as the Dartford Crossing and until 1991 the Dartford Tunnel, is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, carrying the A282 road between Dartford in Kent to the south with Thurrock in Essex to the north.

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Edward Hubbard

Edward Horton Hubbard (2 July 1937 – 31 May 1989) was an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Erskine Bridge

The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Forth Bridge

The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of Edinburgh City Centre.

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Forth Road Bridge

The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland.

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Frank Arneil Walker

Frank Arneil Walker OBE is a Scottish architectural academic and writer.

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Furness

Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England.

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Guide book

A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists".

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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History of architecture

The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates.

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Humber Bridge

The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981.

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International Standard Book Number

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter, CBE (née Bull; born 27 December 1946) is an English media personality, journalist and broadcaster.

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Joan Bakewell

Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer.

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John Newman (architectural historian)

John Arthur Newman (born December 1936) is an English architectural historian.

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Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kincardine Bridge

The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Falkirk council area to Kincardine, Fife, Scotland.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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London boroughs

The London boroughs are 32 of the 33 local authority districts of the Greater London administrative area (the 33rd is the City of London).

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Lucinda Lambton

Lady Lucinda Lambton, Lady Worsthorne (born 10 May 1943) is an English writer, photographer and broadcaster on architectural subjects.

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Metropolitan Borough of Solihull

The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in west-central England.

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Michael Bracewell

Michael Bracewell (born 7 August 1958) is a British writer and novelist.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Mobile app

A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Non-metropolitan county

A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Patrick Wright (historian)

Patrick Wright is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Penguin Collectors Society

The Penguin Collectors Society (PCS) is an educational charity based in the United Kingdom.

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Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare (born Patrick Moore, 1958) is an English writer, especially of history and biography.

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Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987.

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Provinces of Ireland

Since the early 17th-century there have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border

The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, also known as the Irish border, runs for Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1999MFPP Working Paper No.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Second Severn Crossing

The Second Severn Crossing (Ail Groesfan Hafren) is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, inaugurated on 5 June 1996 by HRH The Prince of Wales to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built in 1966.

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Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a small town and civil parish in Cumbria, England.

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Severn Bridge

The Severn Bridge (Pont Hafren), sometimes also called the Severn–Wye Bridge, is a motorway suspension bridge operated by Highways England that spans the River Severn and River Wye between Aust, South Gloucestershire in England, and Chepstow, Monmouthshire in South East Wales, via Beachley, Gloucestershire, which is a peninsula between the two rivers.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Survey of London

The Survey of London is a research project to produce a comprehensive architectural survey of the former County of London.

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Tamar Bridge

The Tamar Bridge is a major road bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash, Cornwall and Plymouth, Devon in southwest England.

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Tay Rail Bridge

The Tay Bridge carries the mainline railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, serving rail traffic between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife.

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Tay Road Bridge

The Tay Road Bridge carries the A92 road across the Firth of Tay from Newport-on-Tay in Fife to Dundee in Scotland, just downstream of the Tay Rail Bridge.

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The King's England

The King's England is a topographical and historical book series written and edited by Arthur Mee in 42 volumes.

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Vernacular architecture

Vernacular architecture is an architectural style that is designed based on local needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local traditions.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pevsner_Architectural_Guides

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