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Yorkshire's architectural
heritage is arguably the finest in Britain. From the Middle Ages it included
Europe's largest medieval cathedral at York, England's most complete
monasteries at Kirkstall and Fountains abbeys, its collegiate churches of
Beverley, Howden and Ripon, and great Norman keeps at Richmond, Conisbrough and
York's Clifford's Tower. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, most major
new buildings were domestic. Heath Old Hall, Burton Agnes and Pontefract New
Hall were built to sophisticated Elizabethan and Jacobean designs, followed by
smaller, provincial halls of the seventeenth century. From about 1700, some of
Britain's finest great houses such as Wentworth Woodhouse and Castle Howard
were constructed in Yorkshire.
This great architecture attracted the
attention of John Buckler and his son John Chessell
Buckler, contemporaries of J.M.W. Turner. Between 1804 and 1820 they made a
remarkably comprehensive graphic record of hundreds of the county's finest and
most interesting buildings, many now lost and forgotten, as part of a body of
work that took them across England and Wales.
Now, for the first time in
more than two hundred years, this book makes a large selection of these
drawings readily available, accompanied by an engaging narrative. Bucklers'
Yorkshire Buildings provides an invaluable resource for all those
interested in Yorkshire's architectural legacy.
