The Architecture of Wales

From the First to the Twenty-First Century

John B. Hilling

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781786832849
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786832863
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Architecture reflects not only a nation's history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling's The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised publication meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation's life from Roman times to the present century – less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is illustrated with 268 colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans and maps.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• General Editor's Preface
• Letting the Light In Gillian Clarke
• List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements
• Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1: Land, History and Architecture
• 2: Roman Occupation and Celtic Survival
• 3: Early Castles of the Middle Ages
• 4: Later Castles of the Middle Ages
• 5: Romanesque Churches of the Middle Ages
• 6: Gothic Churches of the Middle Ages
• 7: Other Secular Buildings and Towns of the Middle Ages
• 8: Tudor and Renaissance Architecture
• 9: Vernacular Houses
• 10: Neoclassicism, Gothick and the Picturesque
• 11: Non-domestic Architecture in the Eighteenth Century
• 12: Industry and Transport, 1800–1915
• 13: Country Houses and Planned Towns, 1800–1915
• 14: Religion and Education, 1880–1915
• 15: Civic and Communal, 1800–1915
• 16: 'Arts and Crafts' to Early Modernism, 1900–1939
• 17: Late Modernism, 1940–1985
• 18: Recent Developments, 1985–2017: Simon Unwin
• Notes
• Appendix 1: Glossary of Welsh Architectural and Building Terms
• Appendix 2: List of Award-winning Architects
• Select Bibliography
• Index of Architects, Artists and Engineers
• Index of Places