Main entry:

Pollard, Richard, 1971-

Title & Author:

Lancashire: Liverpool and the south-west / by Richard Pollard and Nikolaus Pevsner ; with contributions from Joseph Sharples.

Publication:

New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.

Description:

xix, 745 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

The buildings of England
Pevsner architectural guides

Notes:
This book is based on sections of Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South Lancashire' and 'North Lancashire', both published in 1969"--Acknowledgements.
"The text of this volume covering the centre of Liverpool and its environs has been condensed and adapted from that of the Pevsner city guide, 'Liverpool' (2004)--note on p. 3.
"This in the second part of a planned three-volume survey of the buildings of Lancashire, revised and expanded from Nikolaus Pevsner's two books of 1969"--Editor's foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Geology and building stones / Fred Broadhurst -- Prehistoric South-West Lancashire / R.W. Cowell -- South-Wet Lancashire from the Roman conquest to the middle ages / Robert A. Philpott -- Church architecture to the seventeenth century -- Domestic and other secular architecture to c. 1700 -- The eighteenth century -- South-West Lancashire in the Industrial Revolution -- Architecture in the early nineteenth century -- Victorian and Edwardian developments -- The inter-war years -- South-West years -- South-West Lancashire from 1945 -- Further readings -- South-West Lancashire -- Liverpool.

Summary:

"A comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire. The great port of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are given of its varied suburbs, complete with the churches, parks, and villas of the mercantile elite. The industrial towns beyond include St. Helens, still a thriving glassmaking centre; Warrington, with its own innovative New Town; and Handsome Wigan, capital of the Lancashire coalfield. But most of the area remains rural, and in this distinctive landscape of moss and mere are some of England's most memorable buildings; Sefton church with its opulent sixteenth-century woodwork, the gorgeous timber-framed Speke Hall, and Georgian country houses including Knowsley, ancestral seat of the Earls of Derby, and Ince Blundell, with its extraordinary Neoclassical sculpture gallery." "Each city, town or village is treated in a detailed gazetteer. A general introduction provides a historical and artistic overview. Numerous maps and plans, over a hundred new colour photographs, full indexes and an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work and guide."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0300109105 (cased)
9780300109108 (cased)

Subject:

Architecture England Lancashire Guidebooks.
Architecture England Liverpool Guidebooks.
Architecture Angleterre Lancashire Guides.
Architecture Angleterre Liverpool Guides.
Architecture
Buildings
Lancashire (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Liverpool (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Lancashire (Angleterre) Constructions Guides.
Liverpool (Angleterre) Constructions Guides.
England Lancashire
England Liverpool

Form/genre:

Guidebooks.
travel guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983.
Sharples, Joseph, 1961-
Buildings of England.
Pevsner architectural guides.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247068
Call No.: BIB 176626
Status: Available