Cathedrals of England and Wales

by John Hooper Harvey

Book by Harvey, John Hooper

272 pages, Hardcover

First published April 5, 2011

About the author

English architectural and garden and architectural historian. A prolific writer and distinguished scholar, he made a major contribution over many years to several aspects of garden and architectural history, but his greatest achievement by far was his magisterial English Mediaeval Architects: A Biographical Dictionary down to 1550, first published in 1954, and subsequently revised. Based on documentary sources, it illumines the English medieval architectural world with gracefully presented facts.

Reviews

[Ken Cook]

This is a book for someone with an architectural knowledge base. However, it reads like a lecture with the little drifts off subject, highly opinionated views of the many cathedrals in Wales and England. My copy was actually printed in England in 1925, and is slightly worn, but I will keep it for when I make the pilgrimage to Britain and visit these grand buildings.