Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the rth-west, and from deeply rural villages to former steel and iron towns of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Renfrewshire boasts t only the medieval abbey at the centre of Paisley, but also the great port of Greeck, with one of the grandest municipal palaces of Victorian Scotland,and in the countryside Georgian houses and well-to-do Edwardian villas, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Windyhill. In Lanarkshire are the great medieval castles of Bothwell and Craignethan, William Adam's majestic hunting lodge at Chatelherault, and planned settlements of international significance, from the model weaving village of Robert Owen's New Lanark to the post-war New Town of Cumbernauld.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300215584
ISBN-13
9780300215588
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228281994
Product Key Features
Author
Frank Arneil Walker, John Gifford, Rob Close
Format
Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Architecture
Genre
Architecture
Dimensions
Weight
952g
Height
222mm
Width
127mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New Haven
Spine
46mm
Series Title
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland
Content Note
120 Color Illus.
Author Biography
Rob Close is an independent architectural historian. John Gifford was in charge of the Buildings of Scotland Research Unit between 1980 and 2011. Frank Arniel Walker is an architect and former Professor at the Univeristy of Strathclyde.