PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDESNewsletter 2014/15

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, revised by Charles O’Brien, is an entirely fresh look at some of England’s least-known counties, last visited by Pevsner in 1968. There is great variety in architecture in Bedfordshire, from Woburn Abbey to the magnificent gardens at Wrest Park and belle époque luxury at Luton Hoo, and from the buildings of Luton’s hat industry to the picturesque Swiss Garden at Old Warden. Huntingdonshire and Peterborough are no less varied, from the great cathedral to Burghley House, and from the famous Huntingdonshire churches to the remarkable model settlement at Thorney on the edge of the Fens.

Cambridgeshire, revised by Simon Bradley, is the first comprehensive re-survey of the county by the Buildings of England since Pevsner’s edition of 1954. The descriptions of the rural areas and towns have been transformed by new research and discoveries, the great cathedral at Ely not excepted. But it is Cambridge itself, with its ancient University and colleges, that has pride of place, including one of the best concentrations of outstanding post-war architecture in Britain.

Somerset: South and West, revised by Julian Orbach, completes the two-part survey of the

county, replacing Pevsner’s volume from 1958. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor

and the Mendips, the landscape is enriched by buildings of outstanding quality and interest. The

early medieval ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and the Elizabethan great house of Montacute are

among the finest works of their time. Also famous are the lavishly decorated Perpendicular church towers. The ports and resorts of the long coastline have their own distinctive architectural

inheritance, and well-kept vernacular houses and other rural buildings complete the inland picture.

ISBN 978 0 300 12668 6May £35

Cornwall, revised by Peter Beacham, marks a significant milestone in the history of the series. Cornwall was the first county volume to be published in 1951, setting the pattern for all its successors. A full revision and update is long overdue and the new edition brings to bear over sixty years of scholarship on the county’s architecture in a full reappraisal of Pevsner’s descriptions of churches, country houses, towns, villages and industrial buildings.

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ISBN 978 0 300 20821 4September £35

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Bridgwater, Market Hall. From the Buildings of England volume,

Somerset: South and West

‘Undeniably, the Buildings of England is a stupendous achievement, unequalled in any other country.’Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, May 2014

‘How can you not visit [Cornwall] again with the new Pevsner in hand?’John Goodall, Country Life, May 2014

‘This has been a vintage 12 months for revisions of Pevsner’s Buildings of England.’Simon Heffer, Standpoint, Oct. 2014

The Spring season of 2015 will see the publication of three new volumes. Two are for Suffolk, first described by Pevsner in 1961. The author is James Bettley, reviser of Essex in this series. In recognition of its excep-tional architectural wealth, the county has been divided into Suffolk: East and Suffolk: West. In both books, readers will find re-assessments of the best known architecture and much more on buildings overlooked by Pevsner or erected since his day. Also out in the Spring is the next volume in the Buildings of Scotland series, covering the northern area of Aberdeenshire and Moray, including the former territory of Banffshire. This is the first volume of two planned for the north-east of Scotland, by David W. Walker and Matthew Woodworth. The second volume, due in Autumn 2015, covers southern Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire, with the City of Aberdeen, written by Joseph Sharples, author of Liverpool in our City Guide series.

Looking further ahead, the revisions of Warwickshire, by Chris Pickford, and of Derbyshire, by Clare Hartwell, are scheduled for 2016. The Buildings of Scotland series will be completed the same year by publication of Lanarkshire & Renfrewshire. Work is also well-advanced on several other volumes, including Birmingham and the Black Country by Andy Foster, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South by Ruth Harman and Cork in the Buildings of Ireland series, by Frank Keohane.

Simon Bradley & Charles O’Brien, Editors

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PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDESNewsletter 2014/15