LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND

Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth (revised by); Brandwood, Geoffrey K.(revised by)

ISBN 10: 0140710183 / ISBN 13: 9780140710182

Published by Penguin Books, London, UK, 1998

About this Item

London, UK: Penguin Books. Good+/Good+. 1998. Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 576pp., dust jacket light shelf wear to edges and corners, crease on rear panel, otherwise quite good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; light foxing on edges of text block, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Seller Inventory # BOOKS340483

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND
• Publisher: Penguin Books, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140710183
• ISBN 13: 9780140710182
• Binding: Hardcover w/DJ
• Illustrator: Black & White Photos & Illus.
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Good+/Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture-England

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Synopsis

Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.