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Empress Eugénie’s English ‘palace’ is brought to life in new book
A detailed examination of Farnborough Hill house and its remarkable contents
Booksreview
England’s late-Georgian churches—long dismissed as 'mere preaching boxes'—are reappraised in new book
Built for a booming population, their architecture has been unfairly maligned, argues this survey
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Book offers overdue estimation of Decimus Burton, an architect of Classical class
The acclaimed 19th-century architect's structures were once described insipidly as having “gentlemanly reticence”
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Pew! Sussex church may scrap plans to remove historic seating
Moves by parishes to replace pews with chairs for “flexibility” anger traditionalists
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A lifelong dedication to Gothic architecture: Peter Howell on A.W.N. Pugin
The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer
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When scholarship married the imagination: Peter Howell on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books
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Book Review: The arch of time
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since