Northamptonshire

by Bruce Bailey and Nikolaus Pevsner

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300185073
• ISBN13: 9780300185072
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 4.6" x 9.2"