Bristol Pevsner City Guide Andrew Foyle

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Series:: Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides
Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 10 Sep 2004
ISBN:: 9780300104424
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 336 pages: 216 x 121mm
Illustrations:: 50 b-w + 120 color illus.

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This comprehensive guide to the architecture of the center of the City of Bristol encompasses all the significant buildings of the area: the cathedrals; key civic buildings; medieval, Georgian, and Victorian churches; commercial and industrial buildings; the university precinct; and the topography of the port. The book also covers the inner suburbs, including Clifton, Kingsdown, St Pauls, St Philips, Bedminster, and Hotwells. Short excursions provide a sample of the riches of five surrounding areas, Kingsweston House, Blaise Castle and hamlet, Tyntesfield, Arnos Vale, and Ashton Court Mansion. Throughout the book, significant new research findings are incorporated to illuminate the full range and variety of Bristol’s architecture.

Andrew Foyle is an independent historian. He was previously a local history researcher at Bristol City Museums and Art Gallery.

'Of all the new Pevsner guides I have picked up, none has been so immediately enticing as Andrew Foyle's new volume on Bristol' - The Times
'A new Bristol City guide by Andrew Foyles attempts to reconcile the architecture of this glorious city in all its glorious diversity' - Western Daily Press
'If you value your heritage, don't wait until Christmas comes around: go out and buy one...now' - The Bristol Evening Post
'If you're planning to stay living in Bristol or Bath your home should not be without your local Pevsner' - Venue Magazine
'A best-seller and rightly so, this contempoary companion to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's 1958 The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, is an absolute essential' - Bristol Evening Post