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Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and Myth

Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and Myth

Williamson, Tom
Spooner, Sarah
Ringwood, Ivan D.

Paperback

General ArchitectureBritish HistoryArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1783276991
ISBN13: 9781783276998
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Jun 14 2022
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Norfolk is a county sadly rich in lost country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them.

Winner of the general non-fiction category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2016.

The country houses lost from the landscape since the late nineteenth century exercise a peculiar grip on the English imagination, seeming to symbolise the passing of a world of taste and elegance, of stability and deference: a world destroyed by modernity. This important new book argues that most previous studies of the subject have been characterised by nostalgia and vagueness, and by a tendency to exaggerate the scale of the destruction and simplify its causes. It presents a balanced, systematic analysis of country house losses in Norfolk, discussing the scale and chronology of destruction. The authors argue that the loss of great houses was not an entirely new development of the twentieth century, they explain the varied reasons why houses were abandoned and destroyed, and they explore the archaeological traces which these places, their gardens and parks, have left in the modern landscape. Their arguments are illuminated by a full and lavishly-illustrated gazetteer.

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