37-620: Lord Street may refer to: Lord Street, Liverpool , one of the streets in Liverpool, England, that forms the city's main shopping district Lord Street, Southport , the main shopping street of Southport, in Merseyside, England Lord Street, Perth , a street in Perth, Western Australia Drumpellier Drive , a road in Perth, Western Australia formerly known as Lord Street Topics referred to by
74-494: A Celebration , edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry, fifty years after BE1 was published: it includes twelve essays and a selection of text from the series. In 2012, Susie Harries, one of Pevsner's biographers, wrote The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: A Sixtieth Anniversary Catalogue of the Pevsner Architectural Guides , which was published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies by
111-525: A new format with integrated colour illustrations. In most cases the City Guides have preceded a revision of the volume on the county in which they are located, although they go into greater detail than the county volumes and have more illustrations. The Bristol guide, for example, superseded part of North Somerset and Bristol , which at that point was fifty years old, and provided material for Somerset: North and Bristol , published three years later. Two of
148-453: A sequential BE reference number, with Cornwall being BE 1. The last volume to be so numbered was Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean ( BE 41). Thereafter ISBNs identify each volume. Beginning in 1983, a larger format was introduced, and all subsequent new editions have been issued in this format (while, pending revisions, pre-1983 volumes continued to be reprinted in
185-608: A studio above a cafe in Lord Street from 1924 to 1931. The building housing the studio suffered bomb damage in World War II. After destruction by German aerial bombing much of Lord Street was rebuilt in the 1950s; the south side "drearily rebuilt" according to the Buildings of England series covering Liverpool. Pevsner Architectural Guides The Pevsner Architectural Guides are four series of guide books to
222-511: A volume focusing on church buildings and another on dwelling houses (including vernacular architecture ). In 1986, Penguin published an anthology from Pevsner's volumes edited by Bridget Cherry and John Newman , The Best Buildings of England , ISBN 0-670-81283-8 . It has an introduction by Newman assessing Pevsner's aims and methods. In 2001, the Penguin Collectors Society published The Buildings of England:
259-500: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lord Street, Liverpool Lord Street is a street in central Liverpool , England that forms part of the city's main shopping district . The street is less than 300 metres in length. It joins Church Street to the east and James Street alongside Derby Square and the Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts to
296-404: Is no single approach for which volume should include the structure in its main gazetteer. In some cases, one volume refers the reader to the other, and in other cases only a few lines appear in one volume and a fuller entry appears in the other. In a very few cases (listed below) a full entry appears in both volumes. The revision of the series has rendered some original volumes obsolete, usually as
333-434: Is of four storeys with attics and constructed of horizontal layers of orange and white stone. The listing comment says "the design recalls Siena Cathedral ". Originally running through the centre of the building was a galleried shopping arcade under a glazed, domed roof. In 1935 the ground floor was redesigned for department store retailer British Home Stores . One of the early BBC radio relay stations , 6LV, broadcast from
370-535: Is underway some of the remaining five volumes: Belfast, Antrim, and County Down ; Connacht/Connaught ; Dublin: County ; Munster, except Cork ; and South Leinster . The series generally uses the traditional provinces and counties of Ireland as its boundaries and ignores the Irish border . A standalone volume covering the island, authored by Jonathan Kewley, was published in early 2023. A number of bridges connect areas covered by different volumes. However, there
407-547: The Penguin Collectors Society . In 1997, the BBC broadcast a series of documentaries entitled Travels with Pevsner , in which six writers and broadcasters travelled through a county which had particular significance to them. They revisited buildings mentioned by Pevsner, critically examining his views on them. A further series was broadcast in 1998. John Grundy, who presented the programme on Northumberland,
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#1732801551825444-499: The University of Cambridge , spent the academic holidays touring the country to make personal observations and to carry out local research, before writing up the finished volumes. The first of the original forty-six volumes, Cornwall , was published in 1951, and the last, Staffordshire , in 1974. Pevsner wrote thirty-two volumes himself and ten with collaborators. A further four of the original series were written by other authors:
481-751: The architecture of the British Isles . The Buildings of England series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner , with its forty-six original volumes published between 1951 and 1974. The fifteen volumes in The Buildings of Scotland series were completed between 1978 and 2016, and the ten in The Buildings of Wales series between 1979 and 2009. The volumes in all three series have been periodically revised by various authors; Scotland and Wales have been partially revised, and England has been fully revised and reorganised into fifty-six volumes. The Buildings of Ireland series
518-643: The Docklands area meant that the volume was superseded when London 5: East was published seven years later, but the City Churches volume remains current and was reissued by Yale in 2002. The first volume of The Buildings of Scotland was Lothian, except Edinburgh , which was written by Colin McWilliam and published in 1978. Nikolaus Pevsner was enthusiastic about establishing a Scottish series, having responded warmly to an unrealised 1959 suggestion by
555-458: The Scottish volumes are internally subdivided; for example , Argyll and Bute has separate gazetteers for mainland Argyll, its islands, and Bute. Unlike The Buildings of England , none of the Scottish volumes adopt a hierarchy of ecclesiastical buildings, instead grouping them together. The series has also been extended to Wales, and was completed with the issue of Gwynedd in 2009. Only
592-741: The amount of information available, especially to travellers wanting to inform themselves about the architecture of a particular district, was limited. To rectify this shortcoming, when he was invited to suggest ideas for future publications by Allen Lane , the founder of Penguin Books , he proposed a series of comprehensive architectural guides to the English counties. Work on The Buildings of England began in 1945. Lane employed two part-time assistants, both German refugee art historians, who prepared notes for Pevsner from published sources. Pevsner, who held positions at Birkbeck College, University of London and
629-488: The architectural historian Andor Gomme that the latter could produce it. A major contributor to the Scottish series is John Gifford, who before his death in 2013 authored five volumes and oversaw research on all but one of the remainder. After Lothian , which was the only volume published in the original small format, a major task was producing Edinburgh (1984) and Glasgow (1990), which were ambitious in their scope of coverage of urban buildings. The remainder of Scotland
666-521: The area of coverage has changed. For example, the county of Cumbria was created after the publication of Cumberland and Westmorland and North Lancashire , leading to the merger of material from both volumes in a single-volume Cumbria , a revision with a new geographical focus. The following volumes have been wholly or partially superseded: In some published volumes and in advance publicity, certain titles were announced which were ultimately never published. A number of factors accounted for this, including
703-618: The boundaries of the historic counties of England , which were current at the time of writing. They largely continue to use the historic boundaries, but have been partially updated to reflect changes in London, Birmingham and the Black Country , and Cumbria. The volume on the historic county of Middlesex , for example, has been superseded by three of the six volumes covering the Greater London area, whereas Tyne and Wear , which
740-470: The final unrevised first edition, Staffordshire , was superseded by an updated edition in 2024. The books are compact and intended to meet the needs of both specialists and the general reader. Each contains an extensive introduction to the architectural history and styles of the area, followed by a town-by-town – and in the case of larger settlements, street-by-street – account of individual buildings. These are often grouped under
777-475: The first volume, Powys (1979), appeared in the original small format style; this volume has now been superseded by a revised large-format edition, published in 2013. The volumes of the series are organised using a combination of the current principal areas (e.g. Pembrokeshire ), the preserved counties (e.g. Gwynedd ), and the historic counties (e.g. Glamorgan ). The Irish series is incomplete, with six volumes being published between 1979 and 2020. Research
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#1732801551825814-479: The guides, one covering Hull and the other Newcastle and Gateshead, remain the most recent volumes on their areas of coverage, as the corresponding county volume has not been revised since their publication. This series appears to be on a hiatus, with no new volumes published since 2010 and none confirmed as in planning. Two supplementary works – thus far the only of their type – were published in 1998, one covering London's City Churches and
851-581: The heading "Perambulation", as Pevsner intended the books to be used as the reader was walking about the area. The guides offer both detailed coverage of the most notable buildings and notes on lesser-known and vernacular buildings; all building types are covered but there is a particular emphasis on churches and public buildings. Each volume has a central section with several dozen pages of photographs, originally in black and white, though colour illustrations have featured in revised volumes published by Yale University Press since 2003. The volumes originally used
888-462: The main guides. No further print publications were issued, but the title survives as an introductory website to architectural terms and selected buildings which feature in the Pevsner guides. In 1995 a CD-ROM entitled A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England was issued by Oxford University Press , designed as a searchable database of the volumes published for England only. A second edition
925-417: The original, smaller format). All editions are now published by Yale University Press . The list below is of the volumes that are currently in print; for superseded volumes, see below . Where revisions were spread over more than one volume, the preceding edition remained in print until the whole area had been revised. The first of the paperback City Guides, covering Manchester, appeared in 2001. It featured
962-518: The other the Docklands area (see London Docklands in Superseded and unpublished volumes below). Both were issued in the format of the main series rather than the City Guides. However, unlike the Docklands edition which represented preliminary work for an expanded main volume, the City Churches volume augmented the text in London 1: The City , published the previous year. The continued development of
999-462: The readiness of parts of the text covering certain areas and the anticipated size of the volumes. Unpublished titles included: In 1995 Penguin, in conjunction with English Heritage , released a publication based on the guides entitled Looking at Buildings . Focusing on the East Riding of Yorkshire volume, Pevsner's text was adapted as an introduction, with a greater number of illustrations than
1036-418: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lord Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Street&oldid=974496898 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1073-560: The street was a loading point for waggons to Ormskirk and all parts of The Fylde . Bates' Hotel was in existence by 1785 and a large room therein was used as a news-room for the reading of newspapers, prior to the opening of the Athenaeum News-Room and Library in 1798. In 1851 while excavating for the gas company, workmen unearthed a stone arch and part of the abutment of a bridge on the corner of Lord Street and Whitechapel. The discovery confirmed an 18th century sighting at
1110-466: The time the foundations of the Bates' Hotel building were laid. In 1799, residents and shopkeepers began laying flagstones along each side of the street for pavements; the middle of the street was laid with large, rough paving-stones — macadamization of the road surface came much later. 81–89 Lord Street is a Grade II listed office building from 1901, designed by architect Walter Aubrey Thomas . It
1147-481: The two Gloucestershire volumes by David Verey, and the two volumes on Kent by John Newman . The first volume of The Buildings of Scotland was published in 1978, and the first volumes in The Buildings of Wales and The Buildings of Ireland in 1979. Revisions to the original English series began in 1962, and continued after Pevsner's death in 1983. Several volumes are now in their third or fourth revisions, and
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1184-513: The west. The majority of land to the south of Lord Street is occupied by the Liverpool One complex, whilst the likes of Cavern Walks are located on the north side of the street. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the street was known as Lord Molyneux Street and is described as "ill-built and very narrow" with "several good houses, inhabited by respectable families, some tolerably good shops, and several taverns". At this time,
1221-581: Was begun in 1979 and remains incomplete, with six of a planned eleven volumes published. A standalone volume covering the Isle of Man was published in 2023. The series were published by Penguin Books until 2002, when they were sold to Yale University Press . After moving to the United Kingdom from his native Germany as a refugee in the 1930s, Nikolaus Pevsner found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and that
1258-399: Was completed in 2024 with publication of the second edition of Staffordshire , replacing that published in 1974. Until 1953, all volumes were published in paperback only, after which both hardback and paperback versions were issued. The revision of London: 1 in 1962 was the first volume to be issued in hardback alone, and no further paperbacks were issued after 1964. Until 1970 volumes bore
1295-401: Was covered in the following decades, with the final volume, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire , published in 2016. A revision of Lothian was published in 2024, the first full revision of a Scottish volume. The series is organised using a mixture of Scotland's current council areas (e.g. Highland and Islands ) and its historic shires (e.g. Fife and Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire ). Some of
1332-598: Was established from parts of County Durham and Northumberland in 1974, is covered in the volumes about those two counties. Since 1962, the guides have undergone a gradual programme of updating to reflect architectural-history scholarship and to include significant new buildings. Pevsner left virtually all the revisions to others, acting as supervisor only. He ultimately revised only two of his original editions alone: London 1: The Cities of London and Westminster (1962) and Cambridgeshire (1970). Both were later revised again by others. The programme of revision of first editions
1369-442: Was released in 2005. Bibliographies of the guides themselves were published in 1983, 1998 and 2012 by the Penguin Collectors Society . In 2016, Yale University Press published three volumes, each serving as an introduction to some of the buildings and the architectural terms mentioned in the text of the guides. Published as Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions these are: an architectural glossary (also available as an app ),
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