Series:

Pevsner Buildings of Scotland (Yale)

9 total works

Cover of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

by John Gifford, Colin McWilliam, and David Walker

Published 22 November 1984
Briefly traces the development of the city, describes buildings of historic and architectural significance, and includes information about architects and architectural terms and styles.

Cover of Fife

Fife

by John Gifford

Published 11 March 1988
This illustrated guidebook to Fife features all of the noteworthy buildings and places, famous or unknown, from pre-history to present day. It is intended for visitors, specialists who wish to see buidings not usually accessible and for residents with an interest in their region. This title is the third in the projected 11 volume "Buildings of Scotland" series, following "Lothian" and "Edinburgh".

Cover of Dundee and Angus

Dundee and Angus

by John Gifford

Published 16 April 2012

This volume in the Buildings of Scotland series explores the rich architectural diversity of Dundee and Angus. Dundee, the fourth-largest city in Scotland, boasts some of the country's finest ecclesiastical, public, industrial, and commercial buildings, including the unique Maggie's Centre designed by Frank Gehry. Beyond Dundee lies the predominantly rural county of Angus, where visitors can see stunning Pictish and early Christian monuments, castles, country houses, and the famed Bell Rock Lighthouse, the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse.

Cover of Highlands and Islands

Highlands and Islands

by John Gifford

Published 11 March 1992
This volume, the fifth in the "Buildings of Scotland" series founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, aims to describe every building of importance from prehistory to the present in the Highland region, Western Islands, Orkney and Shetland. The vast area covered by the book contains buildings and monuments as varied as its landscape - brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both medieval and Victorian; churches of every period and denomination, their interiors and graveyards often shielding unexpected delights; castles and tower houses and a string of Hanoverian forts; prehistoric farmsteads and Georgian and Victorian farmhouses. Country houses range from a display of ducal splendour through Georgian elegance and Victorian baronial to expressions of the high ideals and simple life of the Arts and Crafts movement. Towns and villages are equally varied, some are of medieval origin, others new creations of the Georgians and Victorians. This is an illustrated guidebook for visitors, for specialists and, not least, for local inhabitants.

Cover of Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-west, and from deeply rural villages to former steel and iron towns of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Renfrewshire boasts not only the medieval abbey at the centre of Paisley, but also the great port of Greenock, with one of the grandest municipal palaces of Victorian Scotland,and in the countryside Georgian houses and well-to-do Edwardian villas, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Windyhill. In Lanarkshire are the great medieval castles of Bothwell and Craignethan, William Adam's majestic hunting lodge at Chatelherault, and planned settlements of international significance, from the model weaving village of Robert Owen's New Lanark to the post-war New Town of Cumbernauld.

Cover of Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen
The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen - the nation's third-largest city - and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's architectural highlights are the great medieval cathedral and burgh church of St Nicholas, the buildings of King's College, and magnificent civic, commercial and domestic buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian age. In addition, the book showcases not only Aberdeenshire's greatest houses and castles including Crathes, Craigievar and Balmoral, the royal family's Scottish estate, but also buildings and monuments as varied in scale and type as prehistoric hillforts, Georgian town houses, rural churches, fishing lodges and textile mills.

Both volumes are comprehensively illustrated with specially commissioned colour photography.

Cover of Argyll and Bute
In the BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND series, an architectural study which focuses on the Argyll and Bute region of Scotland. It is illustrated with photographs, plans and maps.

Cover of Stirling and Central Scotland
From Stirling Castle to the tower houses of Clackmannan, from the colleries and shipyards to the Millennium Wheel at Falkirk, the buildings of Stirling and Central Scotland reflect the divisions between Highland and Lowland, between rural and industrial Scotland.

Cover of Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

by John Gifford

Published 30 March 2007

Perth and Kinross, at the geographical heart of Scotland, contains a wide diversity of buildings including the remains of a Roman line of forts and watch towers, carved stones erected by the warrior aristocracy of the sixth to ninth centuries, the inventive medieval Dunkeld Cathedral, and the island fortress of Lochleven Castle. Blair Castle's mid-eighteenth-century stucco work is unequalled in Scotland. A multitude of smaller country houses embrace a variety of styles, while Georgian and Victorian churches, many with superb stained glass, abound. Towns and villages range from Dunkeld, the epitome of a small Scottish burgh, to the Royal burgh of Perth.

This is the tenth volume in the Buildings of Scotland series.