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ISBN: 9780300096361 - Nottinghamshire
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Nottinghamshire

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Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson
Williamson, Elizabeth

ISBN: 9780300096361
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Edition: 2nd New edition of Revised edition
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Full of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottinghamshire is a county that rewards close investigation. Country houses such as Wollaton Hall, Bunny Hall and Newstead Abbey are explored, as are the great medieval churches.

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Full of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottingham is a county that rewards close investigation. Great medieval churches are represented by Worksop, Newark and by Southwell, with its exquisite carved 'leaves'. Of its country houses, Wollaton Hall shows Elizabethan architecture at its most fantastic, Bunny Hall the English Baroque at its most bizarre, while Lord Byron's Newstead Abbey incorporates one of the strangest of all monastic ruins. The city of Nottingham, marvellously set between hills, is crowded with sturdy Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings, and enlivened by a strong local tradition of first-rate Modernist architecture.
 
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