{"id":908,"date":"2010-07-08T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-07-08T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:01:35","slug":"pevsners-2010-study-of-berkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Pevsner’s 2010 study of Berkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a well thumbed copy of Pevsner’s 1966 study of Berkshire architecture in the local studies reference section of Abingdon library. There are 11 pages about Abingdon. Pevsner has a controversial turn of phrase…<\/p>\n

1. St Nicholas – An odd west front
\n2. Trinity – full-blown churchy…fussy Geometrical tracery
\n3. County Hall – Of the free-standing town halls of England this is the grandest – grander decidedly that Windsor
\n4. Old Police Station – A plain, honest job<\/p>\n

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\n5. Free Library – too tall to be credible or suitable within the scale of Abingdon<\/p>\n

6. Abingdon School – high, clumsy and Gothic
\n7. Old Gaol – impressive enough by itself; the siting is unpardonable.
\n8. Corn Exchange – no definite style nor alas personality
\n9. Abingdon Bridge – the view towards St Helens church is lovely, or would be, if it were not for the Old Gaol
\n10. Queens Hotel – unbelievably joyless<\/p>\n

(The Corn Market and Queens Hotel got demolished soon after – unable to carry on after Pevsner.)
\n\"Pevsner<\/p>\n

In 2010 a fully revised and rewritten Pevsner’s Berkshire has been published.<\/p>\n

Abingdon is still in Berkshire, not Oxfordshire according to this book. (Abingdon was transferred to Oxfordshire 8 years after Pevsner but many still keep the faith and will be glad of this keeping with tradition.)<\/p>\n

There was a walk round some of our great Abingdon buildings yesterday organised by Mostly Books- taken by the author of the new Pevsner. The new book looks much bigger than the original. It is better researched. A few of Pevsner’s more whimsical judgements have been removed, but most are still in. The new author recognises their charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a well thumbed copy of Pevsner’s 1966 study of Berkshire architecture in the local studies reference section of Abingdon library. There are 11 pages about Abingdon. Pevsner has a controversial turn of phrase… 1. St Nicholas – An odd west front 2. Trinity – full-blown churchy…fussy Geometrical tracery 3. County Hall – Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[203,322],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archictecture","tag-berkshire","tag-pevsner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}