Description
The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire
This updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a wealth of ambitious new buildings for the University and its colleges. Familiar buildings such as the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera are reinterpreted, and the many renovations and extensions are described and assessed. Oxford's commercial buildings, suburbs, and houses are also explored in depth, including much that is published here for the first time. The county area extends from the outskirts of Oxford to Henley-on-Thames, following the historic Thameside boundary of Oxfordshire and taking in the hills of the southern Chilterns. Here the new volume includes fresh accounts of major country houses such as Nuneham Courtenay and Thame Park, new assessments of church restorations, furnishings, and stained glass, more inclusive coverage of commercial buildings in the towns and a fuller selection of vernacular and rural buildings across the whole of this attractive and rewarding part of England.
About the Author
Simon Bradley is series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and author or coauthor of four other Buildings of England volumes, London 1: The City, London 6: Westminster, Cambridgeshire, and Berkshire.
Reviews
"Oxford is filled with masterpieces, which is why walking its streets, preferably with this book in hand, is an inexhaustible delight."-Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"An undertaking achieved by no other country. Its editors should certainly be raised to the higher peerage. Cancel next year's holiday and buy the lot."-Christopher Howse, Oldie
"This is a magnificent achievement and essential for anyone who wants to explore the buildings of Oxfordshire."-John Goodall, Country Life
"Simon Bradley's new edition of Oxford and the South-East is a magnificent feat of scholarship that should find its place in the Christmas stocking of every Oxonian student and don." -John Adamson, The Critic
Book Information
ISBN 9780300209297
Author Simon Bradley
Format Hardback
Page Count 936
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
This updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a wealth of ambitious new buildings for the University and its colleges. Familiar buildings such as the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera are reinterpreted, and the many renovations and extensions are described and assessed. Oxford's commercial buildings, suburbs, and houses are also explored in depth, including much that is published here for the first time. The county area extends from the outskirts of Oxford to Henley-on-Thames, following the historic Thameside boundary of Oxfordshire and taking in the hills of the southern Chilterns. Here the new volume includes fresh accounts of major country houses such as Nuneham Courtenay and Thame Park, new assessments of church restorations, furnishings, and stained glass, more inclusive coverage of commercial buildings in the towns and a fuller selection of vernacular and rural buildings across the whole of this attractive and rewarding part of England.
About the Author
Simon Bradley is series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and author or coauthor of four other Buildings of England volumes, London 1: The City, London 6: Westminster, Cambridgeshire, and Berkshire.
Reviews
"Oxford is filled with masterpieces, which is why walking its streets, preferably with this book in hand, is an inexhaustible delight."-Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"An undertaking achieved by no other country. Its editors should certainly be raised to the higher peerage. Cancel next year's holiday and buy the lot."-Christopher Howse, Oldie
"This is a magnificent achievement and essential for anyone who wants to explore the buildings of Oxfordshire."-John Goodall, Country Life
"Simon Bradley's new edition of Oxford and the South-East is a magnificent feat of scholarship that should find its place in the Christmas stocking of every Oxonian student and don." -John Adamson, The Critic
Book Information
ISBN 9780300209297
Author Simon Bradley
Format Hardback
Page Count 936
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
