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Flint Architecture of East Anglia
Stephen M. Hart
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Description for Flint Architecture of East Anglia
Paperback. East Anglia has a substantial heritage of flint-built churches and secular buildings that range from Saxon times to the 20th century. In this book the author reveals that there are a number of different building techniques and designs used in them that are partly functional and partly aesthetic. Num Pages: 160 pages, 128 colour and 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEA; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 187 x 15. Weight in Grams: 592.
East Anglia has a unique and very substantial heritage of flint-built churches and secular buildings over a wide area that range from Saxon times to the 20th century, many of them of exceptional beauty, and most in a good state of preservation. Stephen Hart considers that these buildings, in which a large number of different flintwork techniques and designs are used that are partly functional, partly dependent upon local materials and partly aesthetic in inspiration, constitute an important part of our heritage. It has only been scantily treated in previous works. His book is the first comprehensive one to be ... Read more
East Anglia has a unique and very substantial heritage of flint-built churches and secular buildings over a wide area that range from Saxon times to the 20th century, many of them of exceptional beauty, and most in a good state of preservation. Stephen Hart considers that these buildings, in which a large number of different flintwork techniques and designs are used that are partly functional, partly dependent upon local materials and partly aesthetic in inspiration, constitute an important part of our heritage. It has only been scantily treated in previous works. His book is the first comprehensive one to be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900357180
SKU
V9781900357180
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Ref
99-10
About Stephen M. Hart
Stephen Hart was for many years a practising architect in eastern England, and he has built up his remarkable and very detailed knowledge of architecture in flint and the many other materials that are combined with it, over a long period. His penetrating descriptions and analysis are the product of a lifetime's experience with and observation of buildings. He is ... Read more
Reviews for Flint Architecture of East Anglia
'...[a] truly wonderful book...delightful and imaginative, as well as scholarly, comprehensive and useful...' Norman Scarfe, author of Faber Shell Guide to Suffolk 'This important and comprehensive book...is a richly rewarding [one] to read and study. To those unfamiliar with flint architecture, the discovery of the subtlety and sophistication of the techniques and designs of the flint tradition will ... Read more