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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The celebrated architecture of the Cotswold villages – stone- built manor houses cottages and medieval churches – is covered in full. Longer entries describe market towns such as Cirencester Fairford and Chipping Campden with their great wool churches almshouses and charming civic buildings. The Cotswolds have their share of great country houses too from the medieval Sudeley Castle through the classical splendours of Badminton Dyrham and Dodington to the haunting unfinished Victorian masterpiece at Woodchester Park. Victorian churches include outstanding buildings by Bodley Pearson and Teulon while the plentiful stained glass is fully described here for the first time. The unique contribution of the Arts and Crafts movement to the *Cotswold scene is explored as are the little-known relics of the early Industrial Revolution when the local cloth industry was at its peak. Gardens and farmsteads are not forgotten while pithy descriptions explain the remains of Roman Cirencester and the mysterious barrows and hill-forts of still older civilizations scattered through the beautiful Cotswold landscape. (SP)