Research Catalog

Title

The houses of Hereford 1200-1700 / by Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes and Richard K. Morriss ; additional text by Ron Shoesmith ; reconstruction drawings by Bryan Byron ; original photography by Ken Hoverd ; additional photography by James O. Davies ; edited by Nigel Baker.

Author

Baker, Nigel

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Pat, 1933-
• Morriss, Richard K.

Description

xvi, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 cm

Summary

The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and '70s, what is less widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval plan and contains some of the earliest houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. Three leading authorities on the buildings of the English Midlands have joined forces, combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical research and topographical analysis, to examine 24 of the most important buildings, from the great hall of the Bishop's Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving brick town-house of c.1690. Fully illustrated with photographs, historic maps and explanatory diagrams, the case-studies include canonical and mercantile hall-houses of the Middle Ages, and mansions, commercial premises and simple suburban dwellings of the early modern period. Owners and builders are identified from documentary sources wherever possible, from the Bishop of Hereford and the medieval cathedral canons, through civic office-holding merchant dynasties to minor tradesmen otherwise known only for their brushes with the law.

Subject

• Architecture, Domestic > England > Hereford > History
• Architecture, Medieval > England > Hereford
• Architecture, Domestic
• Architecture, Medieval
• Hereford (England) > Buildings, structures, etc. > History
• Hereford (England) > History
• England > Hereford

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-183) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Nigel Baker -- 2. Medieval houses C.1200-c. 1500 / Richard Morriss -- 3. Post-medieval houses, C.1500-c.1700 / Richard Morriss -- 4. Discussion and conclusions / Richard Morriss.

Call Number

JFF 19-595

ISBN

• 9781785708169
• 1785708163

OCLC

1003586857

Author

Baker, Nigel, author.

Title

The houses of Hereford 1200-1700 / by Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes and Richard K. Morriss ; additional text by Ron Shoesmith ; reconstruction drawings by Bryan Byron ; original photography by Ken Hoverd ; additional photography by James O. Davies ; edited by Nigel Baker.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-183) and index.

Added Author

Hughes, Pat, 1933- author.

Morriss, Richard K., author.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-595