Name: Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) (in English)
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Author: Nikolaus Pevsner; Bridget Cherry
ISBN: 9780300095968

portada Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Yale University Press

Author

Nikolaus Pevsner; Bridget Cherry

Synopsis "Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) (in English)"

Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.