"Kent: West and the Weald" by Nikolaus Pevsner

Kent: West and the Weald Nikolaus Pevsner, John Newman

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Series:: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 15 Aug 2012
ISBN:: 9780300185096
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 800 pages: 216 x 121mm
Illustrations:: 120 color illus.
Sales territories:: World

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An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman's classic survey of the buildings of West Kent, first published in 1969. Here is an extraordinary concentration of architecture of the first rank, and an immense variety of landscape and townscape, from the deep woods of the Weald to the shingles of Dungeness, the cathedral city of Rochester with its Norman castle, and the remarkable Georgian naval dockyard at Chatham. Domestic buildings of note range from plentiful timber-framed hall houses to the Palladian masterpiece of Mereworth Castle and the planned modernist village of New Ash Green, as well as country houses on the grandest scale, such as Cobham Hall and Knole. The parish churches can show rich and memorable work of almost every period, especially the middle ages and the Gothic Revival. This new edition includes detailed explorations of many rewarding urban areas, and fresh perspectives on such famous landmarks as Ightham Mote, Sissinghurst and Hever Castle.

John Newman first became involved in The Buildings of England as Nikolaus Pevsner's driver, in Berkshire and Hampshire, and after writing the Kent volumes was the co-author of Dorset. He went on to contribute Glamorgan and Gwent/Monmouthshire to the Buildings of Wales series, and is author of the revised Shropshire volume (2006).

"An indispensable companion…" Marcus Binney, The Times

"The revised Pevsner retains the enthusiasm that Newman and Pevsner expressed about the sedilia and piscine 40 years ago." Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph