Product Description: The English landscape is steeped in ruins. Markers of the nation’s rich and often turbulent history, ruins represent not only the passing of time but also the constant presence of the past. In English Ruins, renowned architectural historian Jeremy Musson explores some of England’s most evocative derelict and abandoned buildings, from churches, castles and forts to country houses, industrial works and even entire villages...read more

Product Description: The country houses designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) are some of the most original and memorable works of architecture from the Restoration period. Dubbed “The Shakespeare of Architects” by Sir John Soane, Vanbrugh designed the Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace—two of the great iconic houses of their age—as well as a number of astounding country estates such as Seaton Delaval Hall and Grimsthorpe Castle...read more

An English Manor House for generations has embodied civilised taste. This book is a reminder of the architectural glory of the English manor house and charts the evolution of their different styles. It contains photographs of Cranborne, Canons Ashby and Chastleton which are houses of charm and tranquillity.

Product Description: Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: December 2005 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Ebury Press Why was heraldry so important to the families for whom the houses were built How does the layout of a house 9th. 2007 Subject the values ??of the people who the lived in it By reading the architectural features of a house - even simple items such as windows...read more

Product Description: Plasterwork provides the reader with an introduction to the importance of plasterwork in British decoration. An opening essay on the history and chronology of plasterwork -- from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras to its glorious peak in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and subsequent use in various Revivals -- is followed by a gallery of 100 superb black-and-white photographs...read more