South and West Somerset
South and West Somerset

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780300096446

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The rural southern part of Somerset is particularly rich in church architecture, from the poetic ruins of Glastonbury Abbey to the plain geometry of Lutyen's chapel at Brushford. Also discussed are Somerset's elaborate pinnacled church towers.

Somerset
Somerset

Author: Julian Orbach

Publisher: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300207408

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"This new edition replaces Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South and West Somerset' of 1958"--P. xvi.

Suffolk
Suffolk

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1974-03-01

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9780300096484

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In this agricultural county of East Anglia, "scenery and buildings are a delight", wrote Pevsner. Numerous medieval houses and magnificent flint-faced churches with fine roofs and rich furnishings bear witness to the prosperity brought by the late medieval cloth trade. Castles are nobly represented by the unusual polygonal keep of Orford and the curtain-walled Framlingham, and great houses by a notable sequence of brick buildings of the sixteenth century. Among the coastal settlements are the lost town of Dunwich and picturesque Southwold; the varied inland towns range from Lavenham, remarkable for its exceptionally well preserved timber-framed buildings, to Bury St Edmunds, where fine Georgian houses are gathered around the precinct of the vast Norman abbey.

Worcestershire
Worcestershire

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1968-03-11

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780300096606

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The county stretches from the dramatic Malvern Hills on the eastern borders to the fringes of the Cotswolds on the west. The rural areas are rich in sturdy cruck-framed timber buiildings, discussed in an expert introduction, and in village churches which can boast fine sculpture and fittings. The priory of Great Malvern retains exceptional medieval stained glass, and the medieval cathedral at Worcester has the tomb of King John and the chantry chapel of Prince Arthur, Henry VIII's elder brother. The City of Worcester has numerous fine buildings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while Great Malvern is of special interest as an early nineteenth-century spa town. The supreme example of Victorian grandeur is the eccentrically ambitious grounds and house of Witley Court, now an evocative ruin.

Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780300096460

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A county of striking contrasts, Staffordshire includes the industrial towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent and much of the Black Country, but also the cathedral city of Lichfield, and the wild country of the Peak District and Cannock Chase. This guide also covers its best timber-framed houses.

Cheshire
Cheshire

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1971-03-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780300095883

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For the architectural tourist, one of Cheshire's greatest delights is the use of timber. Chester, whose famous rows with their upper walkways are unique in medieval Europe, continues the timber-framed tradition in its riotous Victorian buildings but glories also in its Roman past.

The People of the Parish
The People of the Parish

Author: Katherine L. French

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0812201957

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The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion was participatory and flexible, promoting different kinds of spiritual and material involvement. The rich parish records of the small diocese of Bath and Wells include wills, court records, and detailed accounts by lay churchwardens of everyday parish activities. They reveal the differences between parishes within a single diocese that cannot be attributed to regional variation. By using these records show to the range and diversity of late medieval parish life, and a Christianity vibrant enough to accommodate differences in status, wealth, gender, and local priorities, French refines our understanding of lay attitudes toward Christianity in the two centuries before the Reformation.