Research Catalog

Title

Lancashire: Liverpool and the southwest / by Richard Pollard and Nikolaus Pevsner with contributions from Joseph Sharples.

Author

Pollard, Richard

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983
• Sharples, Joseph, 1961-

Description

xix, 745 p., [64] p. of plates : ill.(some col.), maps, plans; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

• Buildings of England
• Pevsner architectural guides

Uniform Title

• Buildings of England
• Pevsner architectural guides

Subjects

• Guidebooks
• Lancashire (England) > Buildings, structures, etc > Guidebooks
• Liverpool (England) > Buildings, structures, etc > Guidebooks
• Lancashire (England) > Guidebooks
• Architecture > England > Liverpool > Guidebooks
• Architecture > England > Lancashire > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

• v – Guidebooks.
• Guidebooks

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0300109105

OCLC

• 63396571
• SCSB-10258031

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library