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About the book >.>.> Bristol for long England’s second city has an ebullient and colourful architectural past. Though much was lost during and since the war what survives still provides one of the most fascinating harvests of provincial architecture in the country. Bristol has long had local architectural families and firms of considerable distinction and a study of their work is the foundation of this book. But Bristol also has a rich tally of buildings by national masters of outstanding importance including the 14th- century cathedral impressively completed by Street St Mary Redcliffe – ‘the fairest goodliest and most famous parish church in England’ the sumptuous 16th-century interiors of Red Lodge Vanbrugh’s King’s Weston John Wood’s Corn Exchange Brunel’s suspension bridge and station and Charles Holden’s Municipal Library. In Clifton on its wonderfully picturesque site not only is there scintillating townscape but the neo-classical tradition is sustained longer and with more power and consistency than anywhere south of the Scottish border. This book which is being published with generous assistance from the Bristol and West Building Society is the first to attempt a comprehensive account of Bristol’s architectural history. It explores in detail the work of local architects and assesses the influence on them of national figures and movements. It is copiously illustrated from engravings drawings and photographs most of which were specially taken by John Trelawny-Ross during the marvellous summer of 1976. An appendix surveys the careers of the principal Bristol architects from c. 1750 to 1939. (OS)