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Book English Country Houses

Download or read book English Country Houses written by Oliver Hill and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1985 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Country Houses

Download or read book English Country Houses written by Oliver Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Country Houses

Download or read book English Country Houses written by Oliver Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caroline

Download or read book Caroline written by Oliver Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Country Houses and Landed Estates

Download or read book English Country Houses and Landed Estates written by Heather Clemenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, and based on extensive research in estates’ archives, this book outlines the changing fate of the 500 largest estates in England over the centuries. It examines estates in their heyday and looks at their changing role as they declined in the twentieth century, showing how some estates have survived and describing the differing uses to which country houses have been put.

Book The Story of the Country House

Download or read book The Story of the Country House written by Clive Aslet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present "An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hunting lodges of the Middle Ages to the modern villas of today. . . . Mr. Aslet is an elegant writer with a wry sense of humor."--Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal "[Aslet] doesn't just tell us who built what, and for whom, and in what style, but about the prevailing economic circumstances and fashions of each period."--Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.

Book Caroline 1625 1685

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  • Author : Oliver Hill
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  • Release : 1966
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  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Caroline 1625 1685 written by Oliver Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Design of the English Country House  1620 1920

Download or read book The Design of the English Country House 1620 1920 written by John Harris and published by Australian Geographic. This book was released on 1985 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition at the Octagon, Washington, D.C., organized by the American Institute of Architects Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Book Caroline  1625 1785

Download or read book Caroline 1625 1785 written by Oliver Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fate of the English Country House

Download or read book The Fate of the English Country House written by David Littlejohn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they grow more and more difficult to justify or maintain, English country houses have increasingly become "endangered species" in today's alien economic and political climate. In this book, David Littlejohn describes the past glories and troubled present condition of "the stately homes of England", both those that continue to serve as private houses and those which have been turned into museums, convention centers, hotels, even prisons. 49 photos.

Book The English Country House Chapel

Download or read book The English Country House Chapel written by Annabel Ophelia Clare Ricketts and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study shows how the aristocracy and gentry provided their houses with places of worship after the upheavals of the Reformation. Dr Ricketts makes illuminating discoveries, explodes deeply-rooted misconceptions, and shows how, by the end of the 17th century, and after many false starts, a new and more enduring form of private Protestant chapel had evolved as a fundamental part of the English country house. Before her untimely death in 2003, the architectural historian Annabel Ricketts had made the study of the 16th- and 17th-century private chapel her own. Under the editorship of her husband, Simon Ricketts, academic friends and colleagues have helped adapt her doctoral thesis for a wider readership without diluting its scholarly value. The study ranges across a number of disciplines - social, ecclesiastical, decorative, and architectural - and adds greatly to the understanding of the English country house.

Book The Country Houses of Shropshire

Download or read book The Country Houses of Shropshire written by Gareth Williams and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.

Book Restoration England 1660 1689

Download or read book Restoration England 1660 1689 written by William Lewis Sachse and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Restoring the Temple of Vision

Download or read book Restoring the Temple of Vision written by Marsha Keith Schuchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-04-07 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides the historical context for Masonic traditions of visionary Temple building and mystical fraternity.

Book The Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England

Download or read book The Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England written by Colin Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural England's Great Rebuilding of 1570-1640, first identified by W.G. Hoskins in 1953, has been vigorously debated ever since. Some critics have re-dated it on a regional basis. Still more have seen Great Rebuildings around every corner, causing them to dismiss Hoskins's thesis. In this first full-length study of the rebuilding phenomenon, Colin Platt, an accomplished architectural and social historian, addresses these issues and presents a persuasive fresh assessment of the legacy of this revolution in housing design. Although accepting Hoskins's definition of a first Great Rebuilding, starting with the 1570s and ending in the devastations of the Civil War, the author argues convincingly for a more influential "second" Great Rebuilding after peace had returned.; In examining architectural change both in the buildings themselves and through the writings of discerning contemporaries, today's family house, whether in town or country, is shown to owe almost nothing to the Middle Ages. Instead, its origins lie in the increasingly sophisticated world of the Tudor and Jacobean courts, in the refined taste of returned travellers, and in a growing popular demand for personal privacy, unobtainable in houses of medieval plan.; This fascinating and challenging study of changing tastes marks an important contribution to our understanding of Tudor and Stuart society and as such will not only be welcomed by students and historians of early modern England but by the interested general reader.

Book The Architect and the British Country House  1620 1920

Download or read book The Architect and the British Country House 1620 1920 written by John Harris and published by American Institute of Architects Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: