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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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  • of England series was begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its 46 original volumes published between 1951 and 1974. The...
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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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    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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  • book Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life about architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. She is married to Meirion Harries and lives in London. Nikolaus Pevsner: The...
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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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    Described as Northamptonshire's most impressive medieval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world"...
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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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  • 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, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1967) The Roman Occupation, Introduction, Worcestershire, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth:...
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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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    Pedway Peristyle Portico Skyway Veranda John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, p. 200, 3rd edn, 1980, Penguin...
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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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    rooms had fireplaces and some still exist. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner was very critical of the building's architecture, saying: "The scale...
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    Church Street retains the distinct London village character which led Nikolaus Pevsner to write in 1953 that he found it hard to see the district as being...
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  • architecture. Cherry began work on the Buildings of England series as Nikolaus Pevsner's research assistant in 1968, and from 1971 to 2002 was the series editor...
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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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    and Magdalen Bridge to the east. The street has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the world's great streets". It forms a gentle curve and...
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    East Sussex, England. It was described by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as "an enchanted place". Plumpton Place looks onto the nearby north-facing...
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    style was part of a wider Tudor Revival in 19th-century architecture. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the movement as a "Cheshire speciality", but states that...
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    210 worshippers. The Victorian church clock was restored in 2023. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the church as "uncommonly unattractive". It is not a listed...
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    Biteback Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-84954-625-6. Bridget Cherry; Nikolaus Pevsner (March 1991). London 3: North West. Yale University Press. p. 519....
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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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    It was the London home of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian, from 1936 until his death in 1983. Pevsner is commemorated by a blue plaque...
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    (揃わず) "incomplete; unequal (in size); uneven; irregular". S. Lang and Nikolaus Pevsner (1949) dismissed these two unattested Chinese terms, doubted the Japanese...
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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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    sewerage system, it features spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, that Nikolaus Pevsner described as "a masterpiece of engineering – a Victorian cathedral...
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    listed, known for their Queen Anne architecture. Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner described the Gate’s early 18th century houses as “the best of their...
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    (1359109)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 24 September 2017 Nikolaus Pevsner; Bridget Cherry (1977). Hertfordshire. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09611-8...
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