Sussex: East With Brighton and Hove Nicholas Antram, Nikolaus Pevsner

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Series:: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 27 Aug 2013
ISBN:: 9780300184730
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 800 pages: 216 x 121mm
Illustrations:: 120 color illus.

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The East Sussex volume of The Buildings of England covers an area ranging from the High Weald in the north of the county to the massive ridge of the South Downs and the resort towns and ancient ports of the coast. Its coastal resorts are particularly distinguished, none more so than Brighton and Hove, where John Nash’s oriental Pavilion for the Prince Regent sets the tone. Elsewhere castles at Camber, Bodiam and fortified town walls at Rye and Winchelsea attest to its military past and Battle Abbey to its medieval endowments. The towns and villages are especially rich in timber-framed, brick and tile houses for which the county is famous. The twentieth century makes its mark in the exhilarating De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill, and the uncompromising forms of the 1960s University of Sussex campus.

Nicholas Antram is co-author of the Brighton and Hove City Guide in the Pevsner series (Yale) and was formerly on the staff of English Heritage.

'A great achievement of its late compiler, Nicholas Antram'. Maurice Howard, Country Life

'Sussex is seen as a deeply rural county of picturesque villages and endearingly squat Norman churches. In this latest Pevsner volume on East Sussex, skilfully revised by Nicholas Antram, it is the town and cities which emerge as the stars'. Marcus Binney, The Times

'Sussex: East is a fine metaphorical present to unwrap. It is also a sort of memorial to its editor, Nicholas Antram'. Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph