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    Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known...
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  • Buildings of England series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its forty-six original volumes published between 1951 and 1974...
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  • of Naum Gabo David Pevsner, American actor, singer, dancer and writer Keren Pevzner (born 1961), Israeli writer Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), German-born...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1967) The Roman Occupation, Introduction, Worcestershire, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth:...
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  • personalised critiques of London and Paris, and collaborated with Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who considered his reports to be too subjective, but acknowledged...
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  • ISBN 9780140085891, p. 132 Peter Draper, Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, 2004, p. 73. Draper, Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, p. 75. "Art and Architecture » Pelican History...
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    OCLC 185487752. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1951). High Victorian Design: A Study of the Exhibits of 1851. London: Architectural Press. OCLC 875412662. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1969)...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09595-3 page 303, Buildings of England: London 6 Westminster, Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner, 2003...
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    England, designed by William Burges for the Heathcoat-Amory family. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "an eloquent expression of High Victorian ideals in...
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    England, some six miles east of Worcester. It was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'the most picturesque house in Worcestershire'. It was the home...
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  • Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. Pevsner served...
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    disputed. The Grade I listed building, described by Chris Pickford and Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important and impressive High Victorian house in the county"...
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    Church Street retains the distinct London village character that led Nikolaus Pevsner to write in 1953 that he found it hard to see the district as being...
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    Exchange, Bristol, and Liverpool Town Hall. He has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the outstanding architects of the day". Wood was born in...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, 1991, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-071048-5 page 161, Buildings of England: Berkshire, Geoffrey Tyack, Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner,...
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    window than wall." Sir Nikolaus Pevsner writes, "The little rhyme is: 'Hardwick Hall, more window than wall.' Nikolaus Pevsner, A History of Building...
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    "5555". The figures are oddly shaped, and architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner speculated that this may once have read "3333", but that number seems...
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  • Attenborough was an accomplished photographer. "The Leaves of Southwell" by Nikolaus Pevsner was published in 1945 with photographs by Attenborough of the carvings...
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    2012. South and West Somerset: Buildings of England. Pevsner architectural guides, Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press, 2003, p. 51 Discovering medieval...
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    Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "a very remarkable building". The church was built...
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    architectural genius at Ely Cathedral" according to architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. A tower over the crossing may be called a lantern tower if it has...
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    Butterfield in 1860 and 1873–1874. The churchyard contains the grave of Nikolaus Pevsner and his wife Lola. St Peter's is a Grade I listed building and remains...
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    been described as "...one of the most interesting in the county", by Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian. Edlingham itself is little more than...
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  • George Constable (1935) Geoffrey Fairbank Webb (1938–41, 1946–49) Nikolaus Pevsner (1949) Alan Clutton-Brock (1955) Jean Bony (1958) Ernst Gombrich (1961)...
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  • Hilaire Belloc, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Paul Nash, Nikolaus Pevsner, P. Morton Shand, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh...
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    Newton and Hungarton, Leicestershire, England. It is described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important early-seventeenth century house in the county...
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    pediment bearing an image of Minerva. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner referred to this gateway as "the craziest Elizabethan frontispiece...
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  • stained-glass artist. He was active in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Nikolaus Pevsner referred to him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites. Louis Davis was...
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    "most important country house commission." The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed the opinion that the west wing is the "outstanding domestic...
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    by Alfred Waterhouse, and erected in 1887. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as possessing a "rare picturesque beauty". Its...
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