The National Trust Book of English Architecture
Pages: 288
|Published: 21 May 1981
Description
England's architectural heritage is one of the richest and most finely preserved in Europe, from palaces and cathedrals, through country and town mansions, city squares and terraces, railway stations and factories, to parish churches and workmen's cottages. This fully illustrated survey of that heritage describes the changing styles of architecture over the centuries, set against the social and historical background that led to those changes and challenged architects and builders to produce imaginative new ideas and make bold technical experiments.
Since architecture is the art of enclosing space, the book concentrates on buildings that can be seen - and entered - today, describing the type of building most representative of each period of history from the Anglo-Saxon to the present day and paying particular attention to the often under-represented nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The buildings used by ordinary people every day are included, as well as the major, consciously original, monuments through which new architectural influences, especially from overseas, have first shown themselves. The work of individual architects is discussed, together with advances in building methods and materials, illustrated through carefully selected photographs, plans and diagrams.
Since architecture is the art of enclosing space, the book concentrates on buildings that can be seen - and entered - today, describing the type of building most representative of each period of history from the Anglo-Saxon to the present day and paying particular attention to the often under-represented nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The buildings used by ordinary people every day are included, as well as the major, consciously original, monuments through which new architectural influences, especially from overseas, have first shown themselves. The work of individual architects is discussed, together with advances in building methods and materials, illustrated through carefully selected photographs, plans and diagrams.
