
George Devey
Architect 1820-1886
Jill Allibone(Author)
Lutterworth Press
Published on 1. March 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7188-2785-4 (ISBN)
Description
Little has hitherto been written about George Devey, yet his contribution to the vernacular revival which took place in the 1860s was important and innovative. He was the first architect to apply the Wealden style to cottages and small estate buildings, and to use the Flemish manner found in east Kent and East Anglia in combination with the Jacobean for his mansions, whether in town or country, anticipating architects such as Richard Norman Shaw and William Eden Nesfield by at least ten years. His interest in the use of local materials directly contributed to the emergence of the Arts and Crafts Movement and thereby to the model for British middle-class housing up to the Second World War. This, Dr Allibone's second major study of a Victorian architect for The Lutterworth Press, includes over 100 illustrations as well as comprehensive catalogue of all Devey's works, both executed and projected.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7188-2785-4 (9780718827854)
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Jill Allibone received her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is a member of the Committee of the Kent Building Preservation Trust, and a member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Other titles by Jill Allibone published by the Lutterworth Press: Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture