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Leeds: Pevsner City Guide
Susan Wrathmell
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Description for Leeds: Pevsner City Guide
Paperback. The twentieth century gave the city its outstanding university campus and recent regeneration has led to a revival of the city's public spaces and famously ornate and opulent Edwardian shopping arcades and markets. Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 b/w + 140 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 120 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Leeds has a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. This absorbing book provides the first authoritative and detailed guide to that architecture. The city's prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the magnificent Jacobean church of St. John and elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. Alongside them today stand proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic and Moorish. The civic pride of Victorian Leeds has as its crowning glory the grand Town Hall, testament to the talent of Cuthbert Brodrick, ... Read more
Leeds has a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. This absorbing book provides the first authoritative and detailed guide to that architecture. The city's prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the magnificent Jacobean church of St. John and elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. Alongside them today stand proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic and Moorish. The civic pride of Victorian Leeds has as its crowning glory the grand Town Hall, testament to the talent of Cuthbert Brodrick, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300107364
SKU
V9780300107364
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About Susan Wrathmell
Susan Wrathmell is an independent architectural historian based in West Yorkshire.
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