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The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300096385
eBay Product ID (ePID)88486064
Product Key Features
Book TitleNorthumberland
AuthorHumphrey Welfare, Peter Ryder, John Grundy, Nikolaus Pevsner, Grace Mccombie
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
Number of Pages704 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height219mm
Item Width129mm
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Title_AuthorGrace Mccombie, John Grundy, Nikolaus Pevsner, Peter Ryder, Humphrey Welfare
Series TitlePevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States