A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash

By Harry Mount

Book Overview

A brilliant, offbeat celebration of the great hodgepodge of British buildings' Thomas Marks, Sunday Telegraph

From soaring Victorian railway stations to Edwardian terraces, from Perpendicular churches to Strawberry Hill, Britain has an architecture unrivalled in fertility, invention and heart-stopping beauty. And with some very strong feelings about window sills, Harry Mount could not be better qualified to survey it.

Meandering through garden suburbs and cathedral closes, discovering Moghul palaces in Gloucestershire and Egyptian sphinxes in Islington, A Lust for Window Sills is rich with anecdote, allusion and such inspired digressions as where to find the ugliest gargoyles and a liquid history of watering holes from gin palaces to the Rovers Return.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349121060
• ISBN13: 9780349121062
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary