tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post8234531415819447471..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Oxfordshire revisitedPhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-25195459425470770132017-08-02T23:03:52.102+01:002017-08-02T23:03:52.102+01:00I hope the new version omits some of Pevsner's...I hope the new version omits some of Pevsner's more dismissive and opinionated comments. Difficult to forgive him for his negative remarks on Anglo-Saxon Architecture, probably dissuading many from taking the period seriously. I fear too that even a new version might leave many fascinating buildings out. A lot of the built environment consists of bow-fronted semis and so on - however we might find ourselves rather bored with these en masse, it's probably about time they were fitted into an overall context. Who, for instance, mass-produced the tiled doorways in circa 1890 houses, or the Gothic gateposts on the Wells Road going out of Bristol? Part of the task might be enabling observers to appreciate easily overlooked items in the ordinary suburbia. Betjeman could do it (in verse), almost without trying... Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com