Sussex: East: With Brighton and Hove (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

by Nicholas Antram and Nikolaus Pevsner

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The East Sussex volume of The Buildings of England covers an area ranging from the High Weald in the north of the county to the massive ridge of the South Downs and the resort towns and ancient ports of the coast. Its coastal resorts are particularly distinguished, none more so than Brighton and Hove, where John Nash's oriental Pavilion for the Prince Regent sets the tone. Elsewhere castles at Camber, Bodiam and fortified town walls at Rye and Winchelsea attest to its military past and Battle Abbey to its medieval endowments. The towns and villages are especially rich in timber-framed, brick and tile houses for which the county is famous. The twentieth century makes its mark in the exhilarating De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill, and the uncompromising forms of the 1960s University of Sussex campus.

  • ISBN10 0300184735
  • ISBN13 9780300184730
  • Publish Date 27 August 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press