Oxfordshire : North and West:
Pevsner Architectural Guides

Nikolaus Pevsner, Alan Brooks, Jennifer Sherwood

Series
Pevsner Architectural Guides Pevsner Architectural Guides
Type
Print
Publicaton Date
May 2017
Standard Number
9780300209303
Distributor
Yale University Press
Specifications
736 pages

This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood’s 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as notable town architecture and the medieval parish churches for which the area is well known. Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the late flowering of Lutyens’s 1930s Middleton Park; the grandest, however, is Blenheim Palace, the Baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664–1726).