Dumfries and Galloway

These unrivalled guides, The Buildings of Scotland, give the scholarly reader insights into every significant Scottish building, from prehistoric brochs to medieval castles, classical country houses, Victorian churches, and twentieth-century tower blcoks. An introduction puts the buildings in context, while maps, plans and over a hundred photographs bring them into closer focus. Comprehensive indexes and an illustrated glossary with many Scottish terms turn these indispensable companions into valuable reference works. The turbulent history of this border region, with its varied landscape of coastal plain, moorland and forest, is reflected in strong-walled castles at lonely Auchencass, Caerlaverock and Sanquhar, and in its many tower houses. Equally majestic are the medieval abbeys of Dundrennan, Glenluce and Sweetheart, and the great Baroque ducal palace at Drumlanrig. Lighthouses, farm steadings and small burghs, with their churches and tolbooths, are among the more modest and peaceful charms of this unspoilt south-west corner of Scotland.

ISBN 0300096712   Pages 622 ISBN13 9780300096712 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 764 Publisher Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Imprint Yale University Press   Series title Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780140710670 Publication date 01 Jan 1996   Height (mm) 230 Library of Congress NA980.D88 \G54 2002   Width (mm) 130 DEWEY 720.94147   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

"The hardest thing to write is a great poem or a great reference book. To last and to succeed the reference book should have something of the great poem to it. Pick up a volume of that great, and growing, catalogue raisonne of Scottish buildings, the Buildings of Scotland, and you will hear through the gazetting of architectural detail the old various voices of this country." Candia McWilliam, in Architectural Heritage

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