Overview

The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire This updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a wealth of ambitious new buildings for the University and its colleges. Familiar buildings such as the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera are reinterpreted, and the many renovations and extensions are described and assessed. Oxford’s commercial buildings, suburbs, and houses are also explored in depth, including much that is published here for the first time. The county area extends from the outskirts of Oxford to Henley-on-Thames, following the historic Thameside boundary of Oxfordshire and taking in the hills of the southern Chilterns. Here the new volume includes fresh accounts of major country houses such as Nuneham Courtenay and Thame Park, new assessments of church restorations, furnishings, and stained glass, more inclusive coverage of commercial buildings in the towns and a fuller selection of vernacular and rural buildings across the whole of this attractive and rewarding part of England.

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“Oxford is filled with masterpieces, which is why walking its streets, preferably with this book in hand, is an inexhaustible delight.” —Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph “An undertaking achieved by no other country. Its editors should certainly be raised to the higher peerage. Cancel next year’s holiday and buy the lot” —Christopher Howse, Oldie “This is a magnificent achievement and essential for anyone who wants to explore the buildings of Oxfordshire.” —John Goodall, Country Life    

“Oxford is filled with masterpieces, which is why walking its streets, preferably with this book in hand, is an inexhaustible delight.” —Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph   “An undertaking achieved by no other country. Its editors should certainly be raised to the higher peerage. Cancel next year’s holiday and buy the lot” —Christopher Howse, Oldie “This is a magnificent achievement and essential for anyone who wants to explore the buildings of Oxfordshire.” —John Goodall, Country Life  

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Simon Bradley is series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and author or coauthor of four other Buildings of England volumes, London 1: The City, London 6: Westminster, Cambridgeshire, and Berkshire.

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