A newly expanded volume on England's preeminent "Home County,"
exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many
major historic buildings
Surrey, originally published in 1962, was the first Buildings of
England volume that Pevsner shared with another author, and Ian Nairn's
brilliant, provocative descriptions have been treasured by many ever
since. For centuries Surrey has been the playground for London, and home
to thousands of its commuters. Yet much of the county is still deeply
wooded or surprisingly bucolic. This fully revised and enhanced edition,
the first since 1971, is packed with new information on its major
historic buildings - Waverley Abbey, Farnham Castle, Sutton Place and
Loseley Park among others - and much-expanded accounts of its Victorian
set pieces - Royal Holloway College, Holloway Sanatorium and
Charterhouse School - alongside fresh appreciation of the twentieth
century, including its principal monument, Guildford's cathedral. To the
fore in Surrey is domestic architecture: medieval farmhouses,
seventeenth-century gentry houses in the Artisan Classical style,
eighteenth-century country houses, Victorian and Edwardian businessmen's
residences, designed most famously by Norman Shaw, Lutyens and Voysey,
and high-class suburban estates. Into this small county is fitted
architecture of endless variety, ranging from Georgian designed
landscapes to military cemeteries, from seminaries to shooting clubs,
and from lime kilns to lunatic asylums.
