"Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion" by Thomas Lloyd

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach, Robert Scourfield

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Series:: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales
Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 23 Nov 2006
ISBN:: 9780300101799
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 550 pages: 216 x 121mm
Illustrations:: 120 color illus.

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This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, but encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The two counties have deeply rural hinterlands shading into wild and empty upland, bare of settlements but rich in the relics of lost industry. The isolated churches and nonconformist chapels are given knowledgeable attention in the comprehensive gazetteer, which gives full coverage to the magnificent castles of Carmarthenshire. There are detailed accounts of the varied small towns of the two counties, from formal late-Georgian Aberaeron to the quiet charm of Laugharne, winding down to its estuary. Aberystwyth with its promenade, university and National Library, joins industrial Llanelli and county-town Carmarthen in the wealth and variety of its late Victorian chapels. An introduction with valuable specialist contributions sets the buildings in context.

"Yet again, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion is a veritable treasure-house of authoritative information... For all interested in the history of Wales and for all interested in the nooks and crannies of their particular patch, this is an encyclopaedia to visit and revisit."---Cambria

"The hard details they offer, animated by the literary sensibilities of the authors, represent a storehouse for writers." --- Damian Walford Davies, planet. The Welsh Internationalist