Who wrote the 46 volume county-by-county guide Buildings of England between 1951 and 1974?
"Pevsner Architectural Guides The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published between 1951 and 1974. The series was then extended to Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the late 1970s. The Irish guides are incomplete as of autumn 2016. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors. The final Scottish volume, ""Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire"", was published in autumn 2016. This completed the series'"
"also edited the King Penguin series, to suggest ideas for future publications, he proposed a series of comprehensive county guides to rectify this shortcoming. Work on the ""Buildings of England"" series began in 1945, and the first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote 32 of the books himself and 10 with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, which has been extended to cover the rest of the United Kingdom, under the title Pevsner Architectural Guides (now published by Yale University Press). After updating and"
"local architect, C. W. Burleigh of Leeds. Burleigh was soon replaced by William Butterfield, due to the intervention of the patron of the living, A. J. B. Beresford Hope. On the morning of Tuesday 6 October 1970, Pevsner arrived at the church in the company of the company of the journalist Geoffrey Moorhouse. Pevsner had begun work on the Buildings of England series in 1945, with the first volume, ""Cornwall"", being published in 1951. By the time he arrived in Sheen, to complete the work with the volume covering Staffordshire, 45 volumes had been written. Moorhouse recorded the visit to"
"Protection of Ancient Buildings); J.G.N. Clift (nominated by the British Archaeological Association); Leonard Stokes (nominated by the Royal Institute of British Architects); Francis Haverfield; James Fitzgerald; Viscount Dillon; the Earl of Plymouth; E.J. Horniman, MP; and Sir John F.F. Horner. Further Royal Warrants, revising the Commission's terms of reference, were granted in 1963 and on 15 April 1992. The Commission was merged with English Heritage on 1 April 1999. The Commission determined from the outset to publish its inventories of monuments, and to compile them on a county-by-county basis. The first county selected for survey was Hertfordshire: the resultant volume"
"Howard Colvin Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: ""A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840"" and ""The History of the King's Works"". Born in Sidcup, he was educated at Trent College and University College London. In 1948, he became a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford where he remained until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1963–76, the Historic Buildings Council for England 1970–84, the"
"original book, Hoskins wrote an 84-page illustrated BBC book, ""English Landscapes"", to accompany the programme. Later in the 1970s, Jones went on to produce a series of 12 TV programmes for BBC2, ""Landscapes of England"", in which additional areas of the country were studied, leading to a further title, ""One Man's England"" to accompany the series. The Making of the English Landscape The Making of the English Landscape is a 1955 book by the English local historian William George Hoskins. It is illustrated with 82 monochrome plates, mostly photographs by Hoskins himself, and 17 maps or plans. It has appeared"
"The Making of the English Landscape The Making of the English Landscape is a 1955 book by the English local historian William George Hoskins. It is illustrated with 82 monochrome plates, mostly photographs by Hoskins himself, and 17 maps or plans. It has appeared in at least 35 editions and reprints in English and other languages. The book is a landscape history of England and a seminal text in that discipline and in local history. The brief history of some one thousand years is widely used in local and environmental history courses. Hoskins defines the theme of the book in"
"in conservation at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, where he remained until 1959. These were part-time posts, allowing him to devote much of his time to writing. He had begun to publish articles on medieval architecture in 1936, and his prodigious stream of publications, including numerous books, continued in the post-war years. His magisterial biographical dictionary of ""English Mediaeval Architects"", the first edition of which appeared in 1954, contained 1,300 entries, and has been described as ""a feat of titanic proportions"". A central theme of many of his publications was the artistic importance of England and"
"distinction. In 1966 he was appointed a full-time assistant lecturer at the Courtauld, where he taught until his retirement. While a student at the Courtauld, Newman acted as driver to Nikolaus Pevsner for five weeks in Hampshire. Pevsner suggested that Newman should research and write the architectural guides on Kent, which were published in 1969. Newman worked with Pevsner on ""The Buildings of England"" series, which has been expanded as the ""Pevsner Architectural Guides"" to cover Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Since 1983, Newman has acted as the advisory editor to the series. Bridget Cherry, the general editor of the series,"
"from ""English Industries"", though it was touched on in an enlarged edition ten years later, and in 1952 he produced perhaps his most important work, ""A Documentary History of Building in England Down to 1540"", a comprehensive study of both the practical and organisational aspects of the industry. In 1934 Salzman succeeded W.H. Page as general editor of the Victoria County History. He held the post until 1949, overseeing the production of fifteen volumes, covering Oxfordshire and Warwickshire as well as Sussex, and was succeeded by Ralph Pugh. Salzman's other academic works included biographies of Henry II (1914) and Edward"
"her home and, at least later, her studio, until she retired in 1972 (at the age of 77) and died, on 11 February 1980 (not in 1977, as frequently quoted). Most of her works are in churches in the old counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. She was a fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. The authors of the ""Buildings of England"" series comment that ""her windows are usually small, her figures modest, often with small-scale detail in the quarries"" (small pieces of square or diamond-shaped glass set diagonally). Until the publication of Jones (2012), there was very"
"County Books series The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles. It was launched in March 1947, and began with Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60 volumes, with ""Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South"" by Maurice Lindsay. The announced intention was to give ""a true and lively picture of each county and people"". Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald was general editor of the County Books, and he also edited a series of ""Regional Books"" for Robert Hale. Both series were eulogistic about the"
"Buildings Committee of the National Trust in 1965. At a time when country houses were under substantial threat, Cornforth was involved in vetting the many houses that were offered to the National Trust. He became a member of the Historic Buildings Council for England in 1971. He was influential figure behind the scenes, on practical measures and taxation. He also wrote "" Country Houses of Britain: Can they survive?"" in 1974, the same year as the Destruction of the Country House exhibition at the V&A. He also took an interest in interior decoration of the houses under the care of"
"Georgina, and lives in London and Badminton, Gloucestershire. John Harris (curator) John Frederick Harris OBE (born 1931) is an English curator, historian of architecture, gardens and architectural drawings, and the author of more than 25 books and catalogues, and 200 articles. He is a Fellow and Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, founding Trustee of SAVE Britain's Heritage and SAVE Europe's Heritage, and founding member and Honorary Life President of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums. John Harris left school at the age of 14 in 1946. He travelled and took on miscellaneous"
"services of a secretary. In 1972 the Society moved completely to Nottingham where it remains at the Centre for Name Studies. Victor Watts became Honorary Director in 1992 until his death in 2002 when he was succeeded by Professor Richard Coates. The Survey has been consistently supported, morally and practically, by the British Academy; and from 2005 to 2010 was supported by a large grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. By 2018 the Society had published 91 volumes of the county-by-county Survey of English Place-Names, aimed mainly at scholarly and academic users, a range of books and booklets"
"studies. Thomas Hudson Turner Thomas Hudson Turner (1815–1852) was an English archaeologist and architectural historian, born in London of Northumbrian extraction. He was educated at Mr Law’s school in Chelsea and then apprenticed as a printer. His great interest in literature and antiquities led to his appointment in the Record office of the Tower of London. He is best remembered for his work ""Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England: from the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century"" published in Oxford/London in 1851. He died shortly afterwards, aged 37, his health having suffered as a result of his"
"Gordon Cullen Thomas Gordon Cullen (9 August 1914 – 11 August 1994) was an influential British architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement. He is best known for the book ""Townscape"", first published in 1961. Later editions of ""Townscape "" were published under the title ""The Concise Townscape"". Cullen was born in Calverley, Pudsey, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He studied architecture at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, the present day University of Westminster, and subsequently worked as a draughtsman in various architects' offices including that of Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, but he never qualified or"
"John Lodge Cowley John Lodge Cowley (1719, United Kingdom – buried 1797, United Kingdom) was an English cartographer, geologist and mathematician. John Cowley was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London, for a number of years between 1761 and 1773. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April, 1768. His mathematical methods were famous, but he was also an important geographer as well as Cartographer Royal to King George II. He specialised in maps that depicted the counties of the United Kingdom from which arose his most famous work, ""Counties of England"". Cowley"
"collection held by the British Library. Mary Medd Mary Beaumont Medd (née Crowley, 4 August 1907 - 6 June 2005) was a British architect, known for public buildings including schools. Together with her husband David Medd (1917–2009), she joined a team of architects commissioned to build schools in Hertfordshire after the Second World War. Together, the Medds became leading school designers in England and Wales. As Mary Crowley, working with Cecil George Kemp, she designed three houses at 102, 104 and 106 Orchard Road, Tewin, Hertfordshire, in 1935–36. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/29) with Mary Medd"
"then proceeds to describe the notable streets and individual buildings one by one. The accounts are exhaustive, reviewing all available primary sources in detail. The Survey devotes thousands of words to some buildings that receive the briefest of mentions in the ""Buildings of England"" series (itself a vast and detailed reference work by most standards). However the earlier volumes largely ignored buildings built after 1800. Due to the scale of the existing endeavour there are no current plans to extend the project to take in the whole of Greater London. As of 2017, 52 volumes in the main series have"
"he restored Chelsea Old Church (1953–55) and the historic Temple Church (1947–57); also Crosby Hall, London, reconstructed in Chelsea incorporating elements of the house of Thomas More. Other notable buildings he restored include the Memorial Chapel at Eton College; Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire; Old Surrey Hall, Dormansland, Surrey; Goldings in Hertford, Hertfordshire; and many churches, notably in Sussex. In the Cotswolds, his commissions included adaptations to Sudeley Castle and Little Barrow (largely a new work), Donnington, both in Gloucestershire, and Burford Priory, in Oxfordshire. He was the author or editor of a wide range of books and articles on architectural history"
"countryside. County Books series The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles. It was launched in March 1947, and began with Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60 volumes, with ""Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South"" by Maurice Lindsay. The announced intention was to give ""a true and lively picture of each county and people"". Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald was general editor of the County Books, and he also edited a series of ""Regional Books"" for Robert Hale. Both series were eulogistic about"
"of Architectural Historians, having established its editorial board, consisting of academics and representatives of the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the American Institute of Architects. As of 2012, the head of the editorial committee is Professor Emerita at Tulane University, Karen Kingsley, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor. The Society also coordinates fundraising for the project. The series is a planned 60-volume work. Work on the series was inspired by Nikolaus Pevsner's ""Buildings of England"" guidebooks. The Society has overseen the publication of 25 volumes since 1993. The series first 10 volumes were published by Oxford University Press and"
"the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1854 and a Fellow in 1857. He was the author of ""Sanitary Reform: Model Town Dwellings for the Industrious Classes"" (1850) and a 36-page pamphlet entitled ""The Late Archidiaconal Visitation of Bromsgrove and the Injustice and Illegality of Visitation Fees"". A two volume work called ""England's Operative Home"" was announced in 1851. His plans for houses for the working classes, as exhibited at a bookseller's in Derby in 1850, envisaged a block built around three sides of a quadrangle, with three storeys, each accommodating fifteen families. The dwellings were designed to be entirely"
"Landscapes of England Landscapes of England: An Exploration with W.G. Hoskins is a BBC television documentary series broadcast on BBC Two in 1976 and 1978. Written and presented by Professor W.G. Hoskins, the series was a televisual accompaniment to his seminal text ""The Making of the English Landscape"" (1955), examining how human influence has greatly shaped the landscape of distinct regions in England. Hoskins's book ""The Making of the English Landscape"" had formed the basis of a 50-minute ""Horizon"" episode broadcast in 1972 presented by Hoskins and produced by Peter Jones. Many of the same crew returned for ""Landscapes of"
"Thomas Hudson Turner Thomas Hudson Turner (1815–1852) was an English archaeologist and architectural historian, born in London of Northumbrian extraction. He was educated at Mr Law’s school in Chelsea and then apprenticed as a printer. His great interest in literature and antiquities led to his appointment in the Record office of the Tower of London. He is best remembered for his work ""Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England: from the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century"" published in Oxford/London in 1851. He died shortly afterwards, aged 37, his health having suffered as a result of his arduous"
"for the English Place-Name Society from 1946 to 1953, focusing her research on the place-names of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Marrying archaeologist Peter Gelling of the University of Birmingham in 1952, she moved to Harborne in Birmingham while undertaking her PhD research into the place-names of West Berkshire. Lecturing on the subject across the Midlands, she published her research in a series of books, achieving prominence within academia for her 1978 work ""Signposts to the Past: The Geographical Roots of Britain's Place-names"". In the coming decades she focused on researching the place-names of Shropshire, resulting in a multi-volume publication, earning a"
"between 1715 and 1725, and these appear to credit J. Badeslade, who may have been a relative. A small edition of the fourth volume was published in 1739, and this clearly credits Thomas Badeslade and John Roque. In 1741, Badeslade worked with W. H. Toms on """"Chorographia Britanniae"" or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales"". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. An engraving by W. H. Toms of Badeslade's drawing of Hawarden Castle is reported to have inspired John Boydell to leave Flintshire for London to learn"
"church buildings and another on dwelling houses (including vernacular architecture). In 1986, Penguin published an anthology from Pevsner's volumes edited by Bridget Cherry and John Newman, ""The Best Buildings of England"", . It has an introduction by Newman assessing Pevsner's aims and methods. In 2001, the Penguin Collectors Society published ""The Buildings of England: a Celebration"", edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry, fifty years after BE1 was published: it includes twelve essays and a selection of text from the series. In 1997 the BBC broadcast a series of documentaries entitled ""Travels with Pevsner"", in which six writers and broadcasters"
"British Palaeontographical Society published his Monograph in two parts entitled ""British Triassic Scorpions"", and in 1973 the Geological Society published his Memoir entitled ""A Palaeogeological Map of the Palaeozoic Floor below the Permian and Mesozoic Formations in England and Wales"". His first book appeared in 1911 – a guide to Worcestershire in the Cambridge County Geographies series, published by Cambridge University Press. This covers all aspects of the county with, not surprisingly, a considerable emphasis on its geology and natural history. However, his major works were his four imaginative and influential textbooks written between 1929 and 1956. The first two"
"Bridget Cherry Bridget Cherry OBE, FSA, Hon. FRIBA (born 17 May 1941) is a British architectural historian who was series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides from 1971 until 2002. She is the co-author of several Pevsner guides. Cherry is vice-president of the Heritage of London Trust, a Council member of the London Topographical Society and a member of the board of the Ironbridge Heritage Trust. She is a life trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Cherry previously served as a commissioner for English Heritage, the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England and as a trustee of"
"also rose via membership of the bodies listed above and others to be Chair of the committee of English Heritage that dealt with Britain's built environment. Colvin's research papers and correspondence associated with the ""Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840"" are held in the archives of the Paul Mellon Centre. These arrived along with a number of architectural history publications including country house guidebooks which were bequeathed to the Paul Mellon Centre's library. Howard Colvin Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship"
"large issues for the Commission's future programme. like the earlier stress on 'humbler dwellings' in the Anglesey inventory (of which a new edition appeared in 1960), the modifications doubtless owed much to Cyril Fox, still one of the commissioners, and to the publication of his and Lord Raglan's three volumes on Monmouthshire houses in 1951-4. The Caernarfonshire books broke new ground in their recording of hundreds of huts and field systems, site descriptions like that of Caernarfon Castle (in Volume II), and the space given to local vernacular architecture and the small churches of the Caernarfonshire countryside. Volume II recorded"