Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England 2 Volume Set
From Richard II to Henry VIII, with Numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains, from Original Drawings

A two-volume highly illustrated work of 1851–3, covering English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest to 1400.

Thomas Hudson Turner (Author), John Henry Parker (Author)

9781108073509, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 17 April 2014

1012 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 1.28 kg

The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806–84), a supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815–52), and on Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line drawings and plans. Volume 1, after an introductory chapter about pre-Conquest buildings, discusses architectural plans, features, building materials and techniques of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Volume 2 follows a similar plan, describing elements, such as halls and chambers, common to domestic buildings of the fourteenth century, and discussing their individual features.

Volume 1: Preface
Introduction
1. Twelfth century
2. Existing remains
3. Thirteenth century
4. Thirteenth century, existing remains
5. Historical Illustrations
Supplementary notes of foreign examples
Appendix of documents. Volume 2: Preface
1. General remarks
2. General arrangement
3. The chambers
4. The offices
5. Medieval towns
6. Existing remains
7. Foreign examples.

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]