Main entry:

Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh.

Title & Author:

Great houses of England & Wales / Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1994.

Description:

424 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420) and index.
Alnwick Castle -- Haddon Hall -- Powis Castle -- Penshurst Place -- Syon House -- Knole -- Compton Wynyates -- Grimsthorpe Castle -- Wilton House -- Burghley House -- Burton Constable -- Longleat -- Hardwick Hall -- Blickling Hall -- Woburn Abbey -- Tredegar House -- Badminton House -- Ragley Hall -- Chatsworth -- Petworth House -- Boughton House -- Castle Howard -- Blenheim Palace -- Houghton Hall -- Holkham Hall -- Sledmere House -- Harewood House -- Kedelston Hall -- Belvoir Castle -- Highclere Castle -- Carlton Towers -- Waddesdon Manor.

Summary:

Presented here are thirty-two notable buildings and their estates that represent a characteristically English combination of architectural splendor and domestic comfort. This chronological selection presents a panoramic history of the evolution of the great house from Elizabethan through Edwardian times and up to the present ongoing battle for preservation. Acknowledged architectural masterpieces as well as lesser-known houses represent the work of Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and Robert Adam among many other celebrated architects. The photographs, specially taken for this volume, show the familiar as well as the unexpected. In addition to splendid state rooms, grand exteriors and gardens there are photographs of private rooms and servants' quarters. These illuminating photographs offer access to the houses from an insider's point of view, presenting contemporary homes rather than museum interiors. The informed text combines architectural and social history with the individual stories of the great families and the houses they created, where their descendants in many cases still live today. Full of memorable characters and anecdotal insight, this book is a glorious tribute to what Evelyn Waugh in his preface to Brideshead Revisited called "Britain's chief national artistic achievement."

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0847818241
9780847818242

Subject:

Country homes England.
Manors England.
Nobility Dwellings England.
Country homes Wales.
Manors Wales.
Nobility Dwellings Wales.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre.
Manoirs Angleterre.
Country homes.
Manors.
Nobility Dwellings.
Herrenhaus
Geschichte
Bildband
England.
Wales.

Added entries:

Sykes, Christopher Simon, 1948-

Great houses of England and Wales

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115642
Call No.: ID NA7620.M6; ID:96-B285
Status: Available