Bucklers' Yorkshire Buildings

Yorkshire's architectural heritage is arguably the finest in Britain. From the Middle Ages it included Europe's largest medieval cathedral at York, England's most complete monasteries at Kirkstall and Fountains abbeys, its collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden and Ripon, and great Norman keeps at Richmond, Conisbrough and York's Clifford's Tower. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, most major new buildings were domestic. Heath Old Hall, Burton Agnes and Pontefract New Hall were built to sophisticated Elizabethan and Jacobean designs, followed by smaller, provincial halls of the seventeenth century. From about 1700, some of Britain's finest great houses such as Wentworth Woodhouse and Castle Howard were constructed in Yorkshire. 

This great architecture attracted the attention of John Buckler and his son John Chessell Buckler, contemporaries of J.M.W. Turner. Between 1804 and 1820 they made a remarkably comprehensive graphic record of hundreds of the county's finest and most interesting buildings, many now lost and forgotten, as part of a body of work that took them across England and Wales. 

Now, for the first time in more than two hundred years, this book makes a large selection of these drawings readily available, accompanied by an engaging narrative. Bucklers' Yorkshire Buildings provides an invaluable resource for all those interested in Yorkshire's architectural legacy.