Leicestershire and Rutland

Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.

ISBN 0300096186   Pages 576 ISBN13 9780300096187 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 718 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 1984   Width (mm) 210 DEWEY 720.94254   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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