Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West - Liverpool and the South West

Informationen zum Autor Richard Pollard attended Christ's College Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art before becoming secretary of SAVE Britain's Heritage. He contributed to the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Liverpool. Klappentext This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and in this distinctive landscape are found such memorable buildings as Sefton church, Speke Hall, and the Georgian country houses of Knowsley, ancestral seat of the Earls of Derby, and Ince Blundell, with its extraordinary Neoclassical sculpture gallery. Numerous maps and plans, color photographs, indexes, and an illustrated glossary complete this volume. Zusammenfassung Including maps! plans! and colour photographs! this work is a guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire. It contains a general introduction that provides a historical and artistic overview. It also features the great port of Liverpool! with its cathedrals! mighty commercial buildings and warehouses! and Georgian inner city.

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• Authors: Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Pollard, Richard Pevsner Pollard, Richard/ Pevsner Pollard, Pollard Richard, POLLARD RICHARD PEVSNER NIKOLAUS
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2006
• EAN: 9780300109108
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10910-8
• No. of pages: 768
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 216 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England; Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Lancashire, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, Theory of architecture, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings