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The Architecture of Wales

The Architecture of Wales

John B. Hilling

(2018)

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Abstract

Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised publication meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation’s life from Roman times to the present century – less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is illustrated with 268 colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans and maps.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover i
Title Page iv
Copyright v
Contents vi
General Editor's Preface viii
Letting the Light In Gillian Clarke x
List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements xii
Author's Preface and\rAcknowledgements xviii
1: Land, History and Architecture 2
2: Roman Occupation and\rCeltic Survival 10
3: Early Castles of the\rMiddle Ages 26
4: Later Castles of the\rMiddle Ages 42
5: Romanesque Churches\rof the Middle Ages 54
6: Gothic Churches of the Middle Ages 68
7: Other Secular Buildings\rand Towns of the Middle Ages 84
8: Tudor and Renaissance\rArchitecture 96
9: Vernacular Houses 114
10: Neoclassicism, Gothick\rand the Picturesque 130
11: Non-domestic Architecture\rin the Eighteenth Century 144
12: Industry and Transport,\r1800–1815 158
13: Country Houses and\rPlanned Towns, 1800–1915 174
14: Religion and Education,\r1800–1915 190
15: Civic and Communal, 1800–1915 208
16: Arts and Crafts to Early Modernism, 1900–1939 222
17: Late Modernism,\r1940–1985 236
18: Recent Developments, 1986–2017: Simon Unwin 252
Appendix 1:Glossary of Welsh Architectural and Building Terms 266
Appendix 2:\rList of Award-winning Architects 268
Select Bibliography 274
Index of Architects, Artists and Engineers 280
Index of Places 294