The varied architecture of this east Midland area ranges from the Norman glory of Peterborough cathedral and notable Early English churches to many fine Elizabethan and Jacobean mansions. The finest of these is Houghton House but the most spectacular is Burghley, of palatial proportions in a perfect landscape setting by Capability Brown. Southill and Woburn Abbey display the range and excellence of Georgian houses and landscaped gardens while Wrest Park and Luton Hoo look back to eighteenth-century French architecture from opposite ends of the nineteenth-century. More recently, Whipsnade Zoo exemplifies fine work of the 1930s by Berthold Lubetkin.
- ISBN10 0300095813
- ISBN13 9780300095814
- Publish Date 11 March 1968
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 November 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300095814