Bucklers' Yorkshire Buildings
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- ISBN 9780901869548
- Dimensions: 297 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Wakefield Historical Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Yorkshire's architectural heritage is arguably the finest in Britain. From the Middle Ages it included Europe's largest medieval cathedral at York, England's most complete monasteries at Kirkstall and Fountains abbeys, its collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden and Ripon, and great Norman keeps at Richmond, Conisbrough and York's Clifford's Tower. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, most major new buildings were domestic. Heath Old Hall, Burton Agnes and Pontefract New Hall were built to sophisticated Elizabethan and Jacobean designs, followed by smaller, provincial halls of the seventeenth century. From about 1700, some of Britain's finest great houses such as Wentworth Woodhouse and Castle Howard were constructed in Yorkshire.
This great architecture attracted the attention of John Buckler and his son John Chessell Buckler, contemporaries of J.M.W. Turner. Between 1804 and 1820 they made a remarkably comprehensive graphic record of hundreds of the county's finest and most interesting buildings, many now lost and forgotten, as part of a body of work that took them across England and Wales.
Now, for the first time in more than two hundred years, this book makes a large selection of these drawings readily available, accompanied by an engaging narrative. Bucklers' Yorkshire Buildings provides an invaluable resource for all those interested in Yorkshire's architectural legacy.
Peter Brears FSA was director of both York Castle Museum and Leeds City Museum. He is a consultant for the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces, writing numerous guidebooks and supervising the reconstruction of historical kitchens, including those at Hampton Court. A prolific author, his publications include All the King's Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace, The Buildings of Tudor and Stuart Wakefield, and the forthcoming Cooking and Dining in Georgian England, the fourth volume in his Cooking and Dining series.
Michael J. Rochford is a Yorkshire-based historian, professional genealogist and author. His books include Georgian Recipes and Remedies: A Country Lady's Household Handbook, Wakefield Then & Now: Extraordinary Tales From the Merrie City and Tales From the Big House: Nostell Priory. He has been Honorary Secretary of the 100-year-old Wakefield Historical Society since 2025.
Richard Knowles FSA has a near-lifelong interest in medieval armour and monumental effigies. He was editor of the Journal of the Church Monuments Society for sixteen years and is the author of several books on medieval monuments and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He is currently President of Wakefield Historical Society.
