London 1: The City of London

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England

by Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner

The City of London encompasses architecture of unsurpassed richness and variety, from the Tower of London to Richard Roger's iconoclastic Lloyd's building. This guide unlocks the city's treasures and investigates its growth.

Genres: History, London, Architecture

702 pages, Hardcover

First published March 11, 1997

About the author

Simon Bradley is joint editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides.

Reviews

[David Bisset · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well I have finished the excellent introduction. And will now be dipping into the subsequent pages to enhance my knowledge of the City of London. What a magnificent series!

[Sitatunga · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a pity this was already out of date on publication and of course dates further on an almost weekly basis ... but its serves its purpose as an authority one can use and quote willy-nilly without having to go into county records, surveys, building plans, planning applications, English Heritage entries, academic treatises, subscription-only journals and giant coffee table tomes, all of which seem to use 'Baldy' anyway. And,er, Bradley, and Cherry,et al.

[Tamra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful and very, very thorough series of architectural guides to London. They aren't, however, very convenient for carrying around with all the other tourist junk that needs to go in a bag.