BerkshireNikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as `half home county, half West Country'. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in consequence, broad and remarkable. Berkshire's houses range from intriguing early timber-framed dwellings to the splendours of Windsor Castle, at once England's greatest fortress and finest royal palace, through Georgian, Victorian and Arts-and-Crafts mansions of exceptional diversity and richness. Besides its many medieval churches, the county is a wonderful hunting ground for the Gothic Revival, including works by famous names such as Butterfield and G.E. Street. Its market towns retain much of their Georgian charm, while the prosperity of recent years has brought new waves of confident and innovative architecture. -- |
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GAZETTEER | 93 |
GLOSSARY | 743 |
INDEX OF ARCHITECTS ARTISTS PATRONS | 769 |
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Abbey Abingdon aisle arcade architect balusters Bath stone Berkshire block buildings built carved Castle ceiling centre chancel chancel arch chapel chimneypiece church clerestory columns COTTAGE courtyard cross-wing decoration designed doorway Doric E window early C19 entrance façade Faringdon FARM five bays flanked flint floor FONT former front G. E. Street gables garden Gothic hall Henry Hill hipped roof hipped-roofed interior John lancet lancet windows Lane late C18 later LODGE MANOR medieval MONUMENTS mouldings nave Neo-Tudor Newbury Norman octagonal original Oxford painted panels Park pediment Perp piers pilasters plain porch PULPIT rebuilt red brick remodelled REREDOS restored Road round Royal SCHOOL screen side St George's St George's Chapel STAINED GLASS staircase stone storeys stuccoed style survives tall terrace Thames three-bay three-storeyed tiled timber timber-framed tower town tracery transept two-storey vault Victorian village wall Wantage William Windsor Windsor Castle wing Wokingham wooden Wyatville