Architecture In Britain And Ireland: 600-1500; Author: Archer, Lucy; Author: Photographer Smith, Edwin; Performer: Smith, Edwin; Paperback

Author: Archer, Lucy; Author: Photographer Smith, Edwin; Performer: Smith, Edwin
Paperback; 300 B&w Photographs, Glossary
477 pages
Published: October 1999
Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
ISBN: 1860464041
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While providing a historical background of each period, Lucy Archer's study is not so much a history of early British architecture as a near-exhaustive guide to the secular as well as religious buildings that survive and can be visited.Three hundred black-and-white photographs by Edwin Smith, one of this century's most outstanding photographers, a glossary of architectural terms, anda gazetteer covering thousands of sites in Britain and Ireland make this an invaluable work of reference as well as an invitation to travel and discover.This is the first of Lucy Archer's three-volume survey, the subject of a lifelong study.600-1500: Saxon, Norman and Medieval. To all those interested in Britain's rich architectural legacy, this first volume in a series of three will be an indispensable companion to throughout the British Isles.The first volume in a series of three, this text offers an account of the architecture in Britain and Ireland between 600 and 1500. It includes a glossary of architectural terms and a gazetteer covering thousands of sites.