This volume sheds light on the pride of the region
- the great medieval churches of York Minster the Minster & St Mary at Beverley & Holy Trinity Hull but also on less well known architectural pleasures of town & county. Outstanding Victorian village churches including masterpieces by Street & Pearson are as rewarding as the major country houses of Burton Agnes Burton Constable & Sledmere. The countryside offes a wide range of monuments from the beautifully sited ruins of Kirkham Priory to the spectacular Humber Bridge. Farmhouses & cottages of the Wolds picturesque estate villages & chapels & industrial structures are all brought into focus. A large section is devoted to York &
Includes:: a survey of the historic buildings of the city centre from the Roman period onwards. This is complemented by a detailed exploration of Yorks eighteenth & nineteenth-century suburbs. Equal care has been applied to the descriptions of Beverley with its attractive townscape & the port of Hull where unexpected highlights include seventeenth-century merchant houses Georgian almshouses ornate Victorian pubs & grand Edwardian public buildings.