Surreys architecture is a constantly surprising mix of the rural & urban with many of its most important buildings such as the seventeenth-century Ham House found amongst the outgrowth of London itself. The landscape gardens of Painshill & Claremont attest to Surreys popularity in the eighteenth century & the countys enthusiasm for follies & remarkable garden buildings. More recent architecture
Includes:: notable early works by Lutyens with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll inspired by the rich stock of late medieval farmhouses & tile-hung cottages in the countys southern villages. Among interwar suburban housing there are some exceptional Modernist homes such as The Homewood by Patrick Gwynne. Church architecture in Surrey
Includes:: work by all of the great names of the Gothic Revival; not least of its surprises is the luminous & spacious interior of Guildford Cathedral.