Cricket Pavilions
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When cricket was democratised and taken up more widely in the nineteenth century, the pavilion became an essential item for every cricket club. Pavilions provide the necessary facilities – changing areas, room to eat, drink and socialise, an external clock, a scoreboard, a view of the pitch – but also a home for the trophies, scorebooks, records and archives that embody the history and heritage of a club. Whether thatched pavilions on village greens, ornate Victorian structures or modernist icons, the cricket pavilion is at the heart of the game’s architectural, social and cultural significance.
Superbly illustrated throughout, this book will be of interest to those who enjoy the game and appreciate the rich variety of architectural styles represented in cricket pavilions across the country.
Dr Lynn Pearson is an independent architectural historian specialising in industrial buildings and sporting architecture. She has been based in Newcastle upon Tyne since the 1980s and has published over twenty books. Her England’s Co-operative Movement: An Architectural History (Historic England, 2020), won the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s 2021 Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Industrial Archaeology. She won the same award in 2015 for her book on brewery architecture, Built to Brew (Historic England, 2014). Her Tile Gazetteer (Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society) was runner-up in the 2005 National Reference Book of the Year Awards.