County Durham

County Durham
ISBN-10
0300095996
ISBN-13
9780300095999
Category
Architecture
Pages
570
Language
English
Published
1983-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Authors
Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson

Description

The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.

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