Author: Shropshire gazetteerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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The Shropshire gazetteer
Author: Shropshire gazetteerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Abbeys
Author: Montague Rhodes JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Shropshire
Author: John NewmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300120837
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
This fully-illustrated guide to Shropshire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer and includes a variety of helpful maps, plans, and indexes along with an illustrated glossary. The book is an invaluable reference work on the appealing and unspoiled county of Shropshire, where many historic towns, including Shrewsbury and Ludlow, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings. Shropshire boasts the Cistercian abbey of Buildwas and many important country houses, including the 13th-century fortified mansions at Acton Burnell and Stokesay; John Nash's Italianate villa at Cronkhill; and Norman Shaw's splendid Late Victorian mansion at Adcote. Shropshire is also home to numerous prehistoric hill-forts and the Roman town at Wroxeter as well as Coalbrookdale's spectacular bridge, the first in the world to be built of iron. The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The county's many historic towns, of which Shrewsbury and Ludlow are the largest, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings. Shropshire's villages, intriguingly varied in plan and building materials, reflect the diverse landscape of plains, hills and moorland and the rich and complex underlying geology. The Cistercian abbey of Buildwas is the finest of several notable monastic ruins, and outstanding medieval parish churches and castles are also numerous. Many of the country houses have a central place in the story of English architecture: the fortified mansions at Acton Burnell and Stokesay, thirteenth-century design at its most sophisticated; the vigorous Baroque houses of John Prince and Francis Smith; John Nash's Italianate villa at Cronkhill, looking like something in a Claude painting; Norman Shaw's splendid Late Victorian mansion at Adcote. Shropshire is also unrivalled for its early industrial remains, including the spectacular bridge at Coalbrookdale, the first in the world to be built of iron. More ancient cultures are represented by the numerous prehistoric hill-forts and the celebrated Roman town at Wroxeter. Each city, town or village is treated in a detailed gazetteer. A general introduction provides a historical and artistic overview. Numerous maps and plans, over a hundred new colour photographs, full indexes and an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work and guide.
Shropshire
Author: J. A. B. SomersetPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802006486
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial, dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain before 1642, together with the necessary interpretive introductions and notes to explicate the materials for the reader. Shropshire, in two volumes, is the eleventh publication in the series. In the introduction Alan Somerset surveys the social and economic history of each major borough and provides a commentary on the major issues raised in the documents. He discusses travelling performers routes, the places they performed, and the remarkable public exhibitions of high-wire artists, camels, bears, and giants. The records for this county are rich and varied, providing new detail about local playing and festivities. From Shrewsbury for example, comes the complete documentation of a unique, semi-circular outdoor amphitheatre. The documents reveal much - from robbery and riots - to the sometimes acrimonious disputes that show the growing Puritan opposition to sports, which attempted to combat an equally stubborn affection for traditional customs. These records are an invaluable addition to the scholarship of early drama, establishing as they do part of the total context of the great drama of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and his contemporaries.
Shropshire Walks with Ghosts and Legends
Author: Dorothy NicollePublisher: Sigma Press
ISBN: 9781850587910
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Helps see the beautiful Shropshire countryside from a different perspective. This title provides a guide to 20 detailed walks each linked to a common theme - ghosts and legends.
Shropshire: Its Early History and Antiquities
Author: John Corbet AndersonPublisher:
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Category : Shropshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Country Houses of Shropshire
Author: Gareth WilliamsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275391
Category : Architecture and society
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.
Collectanea Archæologica
Author: Collectanea Archaeologica
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375032021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
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