Simon Heffer
Ignore the Girls, Look at the Gables
The Buildings of England: Essex
By James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale University Press 939pp £29.95 order from our bookshop
The volume of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series that covers Essex has long been one of the more inadequate titles in the series. Though famed for its atrociousness, Essex actually has more listed buildings than any but six other counties. Once one gets away from the hideous dormitory towns, and especially from the sprawl along the north bank of the Thames estuary, the wealth of architectural heritage should be plain to all but the most ignorant, or bigoted, observer.
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