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Some books on Architecture


TG Bonney (ed)
Cathedrals abbeys and churches of England and Wales: descriptive, historical, pictorial, 2 vols (London, 1896)

John Britton
History and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Norwich (London, 1816)

TF Bumpus
The cathedrals of England and Wales (London, 1937)

T Burckhardt
Chartres and the birth of the cathedral (Ipswich, 1995)

J Cave-Browne
Lambeth Palace and its associations (Blackwood, 1882)

AW Clapham
English Romanesque architecture before the Conquest (Oxford, 1930)

BFL Clarke
Church builders of the nineteenth century: a study of the Gothic revival in England (London, 1938)

N Coldstream
Masons and sculptors (1991)

H Colvin
Biographical dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed (1998)

DHS Cranage
Cathedrals and how they were built (Cambridge, 1948)

AB Dalgetty
History of the church of Foulis Easter (Dundee, 1933)

J Fergusson
History of modern styles of architecture (London,1862)

J Fergusson
Illustrated handbook of architecture, 2 vols (London, 1855)

Eric Fernie
An architectural history of Norwich Cathedral (Oxford, 1993)

Eric Fernie and AB Whittingham
'The Early Communar rolls and Pitancer Rolls' in NRS 41 (1972)

Fifty modern churches: photographs, ground plans and information regarding … churches erected during the years 1930-1945 (London, 1947)

J Freart
Parallel of antient architecture with modern (London, 1707)

R Gilchrist
Norwich cathedral: a biography of the north transept
in Norwich Cathedral Misc Papers vol 5

R Gilchrist
Norwich cathedral tower and spire [offprint]

WH Godfrey
A history of architecture in London (London, 1911)

W Gunn
An inquiry into the origin and influence of Gothic architecture
(London, 1819)

S Hart
Flint architecture of East Anglia (2000)

A Hastings
Elias of Dereham: architect of Salisbury Cathedral

John Harvey
The master builders: architecture in the middle ages (1971)

B Haward
Master Mason Hawes of Occold, Suffolk and John Hore, master carpenter of Diss
(Suffolk Institute of Architecture and History, 2000)

CA Hewett
English cathedral and monastic carpentry (Phillimore, 1985)

Villard de Honnecourt
Facsimile of sketchbook (London, 1859)

M Hürlimann
English cathedrals [chiefly photographs] (Boston, 1950) [also German edition]

F Ichar
Building the great cathedrals (Harry N Abrams, 1998)

G Keevill et al
Monastic archaeology (Oxbow Books, 2001)

WR Matthews and WM Atkins (eds)
A history of St Paul's cathedral and the men associated with it (London, 1957)

J Newlands
The carpenter and joiner's assistant (18??)

CE Norton
Historical studies of church-building in the middle ages (New York, 1880)

Rudiments of ancient architecture (London, 1804)

N Pevsner and Wilson
Norfolk 1 and 2 (Penguin, 1999)

John Ruskin
The stones of Venice, 3 vols (London, 1893)

GG Scott
Gleanings from Westminster Abbey (Oxford, 1863)

L Scott
The cathedral builders: the story of a great masonic guild (London, 1899)

R Scott Mylne
The master masons to the crown of Scotland and their works (Edinburgh, 1893)

P Stanton
Pugin (London, 1971)

W Swaan
The gothic cathedral (London, 1969)

Vitruvius
Les dix livres d'architecture … [trans M Perrault], 2nd ed
(Paris, 1684)

Vitruvius
The civil architecture of … trans. by William Wilkins (London, 1812)

T Warton et al
Essays on Gothic Architecture (London, 1800)

John Weale (ed)
Quarterly papers on architecture 4 vols (London, 1844-1845)

A Whittingham
Bury St Edmunds Abbey (London, 1971)

GD Whittington
Historical survey of the ecclesiastical antiquities of France (London, 1809)

Robert Willis
Architectural history of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 1845)

Robert Willis
Architectural history of the conventual buildings of Christ Church, Canterbury
(London, 1869)

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