NorthumberlandThe county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures. |
Contents
LIST OF TEXT FIGURES AND MAPS | 11 |
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION | 17 |
INTRODUCTION | 23 |
PREHISTORIC | 30 |
HADRIANS WALL AND ROMAN | 36 |
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE and sculpture | 48 |
FORTIFIED BUILDINGS BY PETER RYDER | 58 |
ARCHITECTURE FROM 1550 TO 1800 | 67 |
SMALL DOMESTIC BUILDINGS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE | 77 |
AGRARIAN | 84 |
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETHCENTURY ARCHITECTURE | 104 |
FURTHER READING | 119 |
GLOSSARY | 641 |
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