Surrey

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Author: O’Brien, Charles

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc

Published on 22 November 2022 by Yale University Press in the United States as part of ‘the Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England’ series.

Paperback | 940 pages, 139 colour + 73 b-w illus.
222 x 125 x 45 | 954g

A newly expanded volume on Englands preeminent Home County, exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildingsSurrey, originally published in 1962, was the firstBuildings of Englandvolumethat Pevsner shared with another author, and Ian Nairns brilliant, provocative descriptions have been treasured by many ever since.For centuries Surrey has been the playground for London, and home to thousands of its commuters. Yet much of the county is still deeply wooded or surprisingly bucolic. This fully revised and enhanced edition, the first since 1971, is packed with new information on its major historic buildings Waverley Abbey, Farnham Castle, Sutton Place and Loseley Park among others and much-expanded accounts of its Victorian set pieces Royal Holloway College, Holloway Sanatorium and Charterhouse School alongside fresh appreciation of the twentieth century, including its principal monument, Guildfords cathedral.To the fore in Surrey is domestic architecture: medieval farmhouses, seventeenth-century gentry houses in the Artisan Classical style, eighteenth-century country houses, Victorian and Edwardian businessmens residences, designed mostfamously by Norman Shaw, Lutyens and Voysey, and high-class suburban estates. Into this small county is fitted architecture of endless variety, ranging from Georgian designed landscapes to military cemeteries, from seminaries to shooting clubs, and from lime kilns to lunatic asylums.