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The newly revised Pevsner guide covering the very best of Staffordshire's buildings and architectural features An expanded, updated and fully revised guide to the buildings of Staffordshire, published fifty years after Pevsner's original survey of 1974. The first edition completed the original Buildings of England series, and its successor is in turn the final instalment of the revision programme begun in 1983, when the first large-format English volume appeared. The new edition comprises an expert introduction and a detailed gazetteer, including contributions on the west and south of the county by Chris Pickford. Highlights include the cathedral city of Lichfield, the surprisingly little-known county town of Stafford and outstanding country houses from the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian centuries, such as Wootton Lodge, Weston Park and Shugborough Hall with its internationally important garden buildings. A distinctive industrial history is reflected in the pottery buildings of Stoke-on-Trent and the breweries of Burton-upon-Trent. Among the smaller towns, Leek was the centre of a thriving Arts and Crafts community. Over a hundred and twenty specially taken colour photographs are included, alongside numerous maps and text illustrations.

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“[The guides] communicate extraordinary respect for, and devotion to, their subject, which are in themselves things of wonder. We won’t see anything like this again.”—Rowan Moore, The Observer “The Staffordshire volume in its current form is a handsome memorial stone to an extraordinary endeavour, and to the scholarship, tenacity and wit of its originator.”—Gillian Darley, APOLLO

“The Staffordshire volume in its current form is a handsome memorial stone to an extraordinary endeavour, and to the scholarship, tenacity and wit of its originator.”—Gillian Darley, APOLLO “[The guides] communicate extraordinary respect for, and devotion to, their subject, which are in themselves things of wonder. We won’t see anything like this again.” —Rowan Moore, The Observer  

“The Staffordshire volume in its current form is a handsome memorial stone to an extraordinary endeavour, and to the scholarship, tenacity and wit of its originator.”—Gillian Darley, APOLLO

“[The guides] communicate extraordinary respect for, and devotion to, their subject, which are in themselves things of wonder. We won’t see anything like this again.” —Rowan Moore, The Observer   “The Staffordshire volume in its current form is a handsome memorial stone to an extraordinary endeavour, and to the scholarship, tenacity and wit of its originator.”—Gillian Darley, APOLLO

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Dr Christopher Wakeling (1948–2023) was an Honorary Fellow of Keele University, where he taught for more than thirty years, and a former chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He had a special interest in religious architecture, and his book Chapels of England: Buildings of Protestant Nonconformity remains the standard work. He chaired Historic England’s Places of Worship Forum and served as a trustee of the Historic Chapels Trust and as a member of the listed buildings advisory committees of the Baptist Union and the Methodist Church. A longtime resident of Staffordshire, he was chair of the county’s historic buildings trust and a founding director of the local architecture centre, Urban Vision North Staffordshire.

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