Devon
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Devon
（The buildings of England）
Penguin, 1989
2nd ed. rev. / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner
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Previous ed.: published in 2v. as North Devon by Nikolaus Pevsner ; South Devon by Nikolaus Pevsner. 1952
Includes index
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Description
Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.
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