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出版Yale University Press, 2010
主題Architecture / GeneralArchitecture / RegionalTravel / Europe / Great Britain
ISBN030012662X9780300126624
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mD9IAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as `half home county, half West Country'. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in consequence, broad and remarkable. Berkshire's houses range from intriguing early timber-framed dwellings to the splendours of Windsor Castle, at once England's greatest fortress and finest royal palace, through Georgian, Victorian and Arts-and-Crafts mansions of exceptional diversity and richness. Besides its many medieval churches, the county is a wonderful hunting ground for the Gothic Revival, including works by famous names such as Butterfield and G.E. Street. Its market towns retain much of their Georgian charm, while the prosperity of recent years has brought new waves of confident and innovative architecture. --