Cambridgeshire

A full account of Cambridge begins this volume, tracing its development prior to the University and continuing with the architectural spendours that have appeared since. Cambridge's architectural highlights are numerous. From the medieval college precincts, built throughout the town and marked out by their turreted gatehouses, to Wren's Trinity Library, through the period of Victorian expansion and on to the ambitious and innovative buildings of the twentieth-century. In the county itself the most notable monument is Ely Cathedral with its unique octagonal crossing, and the Georgian river port of Wisbech is especially attractive, while Wimpole Hall exemplifies the grandeur of the major country houses. Substantial survivals of timber-framed buildings are more modest in scale but no less significant. Cambridgeshire architecture cannot fail to delight.

ISBN 0300095864   Pages 560 ISBN13 9780300095869 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 556 Publisher Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Imprint Yale University Press   Series title Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England Format Hardback   Height (mm) 180 Publication date 01 Jan 1970   Width (mm) 120 DEWEY 720.94265   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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