The Architecture of Wales

From the First to the Twenty-First Century

By (author) John B. Hilling

Publication date:

15 August 2018

Length of book:

320 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

220x245mm

ISBN-13: 9781786832849

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised publication meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation’s life from Roman times to the present century – less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is illustrated with 268 colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans and maps.

General Editor’s Preface ‘Letting the Light In’ Gillian Clarke List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements Land, History and Architecture Roman Occupation and Celtic Survival Early Castles of the Middle Ages Later Castles of the Middle Ages Romanesque Churches of the Middle Ages Gothic Churches of the Middle Ages Other Secular Buildings and Towns of the Middle Ages Tudor and Renaissance Architecture Vernacular Houses Neoclassicism, Gothick and the Picturesque Non-domestic Architecture in the Eighteenth Century Industry and Transport, 1800–1815 Country Houses and Planned Towns, 1800–1915 Religion and Education, 1800–1915 Civic and Communal, 1800–1915 Arts and Crafts to Early Modernism, 1900–1939 Late Modernism, 1940–1985 Recent Developments, 1986–2017, Simon Unwin Appendix 1: Glossary of Welsh Architectural and Building Terms Appendix 2: List of Award-winning Architects Select Bibliography Index of Architects, Engineers and Designers General Index