Oxfordshire

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England

by Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner

Oxford's unique collection of university and college buildings both old and new form a major part of this book. The city itself with its medieval walls and castle and ancient churches is also fully described. Among the county's distinguished houses are Vanbrugh's Blenheim and Kent's Rousham Park, each in magnificently landscaped grounds, while village churches range from notable Norman examples such as Iffley to G.E. Street's inventive Victorian creations such as St Simon & St Jude at Shipton-under-Wychwood. Other attractive towns in this still strongly rural county vary from stone-built Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds to brick-built Henley on the Thames.

Genres: Reference

948 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Jennifer Sherwood studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London University. She has worked as researcher for two earlier volumes in The Buildings of England series and in 1965-9 taught architectural history at the Central School of Art, London. In 1970 she joined the staff of the Royal Library Windsor Castle, where she is working on a catalogue of the English Architectural drawings. (From Oxfordshire, 1974)