Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales

Subjects:

• Architecture & Planning » Architecture
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• Seventy-five entries define the national architecture of mainland Britain in this work by Jones. Beyond the expected castles and cathedrals, the entries include bridges, a royal carriage, and the public telephone booth. The short, entertaining essays reflect on the social and historic context of the architecture....Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers.
  —Choice February 2006
• Hadrian's Wall, Hardwick Hall, and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton were expressions of their owners' and builders' identities, while the Cenotaph and the Ditherington Flax Mill stand for those whose identities are now barely known, if indeed they were ever noted at any time. Starting with Stonehenge and moving up to the Millennial Dome, Jones creates an encyclopedic review of the most significant examples of architecture, including their locations, intentions, creators and significance in terms of what they said about the people associated with them.
  —Reference & Research Book News/Art Book News November 2005
• [A] recommended pick for college-level speciality collections studying British architectural styles from ancient to modern times.
  —MRB Bookwatch November 2005

Table of Contents:

• Entries by Location
• Entries by Architectural Style
• Entries by Architects, Designers, and Engineers
• Simplified Summary of British Architectural Styles
• Timeline of British Architecture
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
• Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London
• Bath, Avon, England
• Belton House, Lincolnshire, England
• Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England
• The British Museum, Bloomsbury, London
• Broadleys, Cumbria, England
• Buckingham Palace, London
• Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, Wales
• Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
• The Cathedral Church of Christ, St. Peter's Mount and The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, England
• The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
• Charters and the Modern Movement, Berkshire, England
• Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
• Chester, Cheshire, England
• Chiswick House, Chiswick, London
• The Church of St. John the Baptist, Huntley, Gloucestershire, England
• Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London
• Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
• The Durham Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin, Durham, England
• Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England
• Erddig Hall, Wrexham, Wales
• Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, England
• Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
• Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England
• Hadrian's Wall, Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend-on-Tyne, near English-Scottish border
• Hampton Court Palace, London
• Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England
• Harewood House, Yorkshire, England
• Highgrove, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
• Holkham Hall, Norfolk, England
• The Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster), Westminster, London
• Ironbridge, Coalbrookedale, Shropshire, England
• King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England
• Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England
• Lloyd's of London, London
• London Bridge, London
• London City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London
• The "London Eye," The South Bank, London
• Lutyens Country Houses, various sites
• The Millennium Bridge, London
• The Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London
• Number 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London
• The Parish Church of St. Giles, Wrexham, Wales
• Portmeirion, Merioneth, Wales
• Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, England
• Public Telephone Kiosks
• The Queen's House and The Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, London
• Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, England
• Regent's Park and Regent Street, London
• The Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London
• The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England
• The Royal State Coach, The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, London
• St. James's Palace, Pall Mall, London
• St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
• St. Paul's Cathedral, London
• Sandringham House, Norfolk, England
• The Soane Museum, London
• Somerset House, The Strand, London
• Spencer House, Green Park, London
• Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
• Stourhead, Wiltshire, England
• Suburban Semi-Detached Houses, various sites
• Syon House, Middlesex (London)
• Terraced Houses, Various Sites
• Tower Bridge, London
• The Tower of London, London
• Trafalgar Square, London
• Tyntesfield, Somerset, England
• Westminster Abbey, The Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster, Westminster, London
• Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
• Wrotham Park, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
• Appendix: The Monarchy, the Peerage, and the Parliament
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index