Main entry:

Cornforth, John, 1937-2004.

Title & Author:

The country houses of England, 1948-1998 / John Cornforth.

Publication:

London : Constable, 1998.

Description:

xvi, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Historic Houses Association.
Introduction: The Country House and the Development of Preservation Thinking 1945-1998 -- 1. The First Steps Towards the Preservation of Houses, Gardens and Parks 1896-1945 -- 2. The Recovery of Country Houses: Private Initiatives and Public Support 1945-1973 -- 3. The Growth of Interest in Collections, Furniture and Historic Interiors 1945-1973 -- 4. Country Houses and the Concept of the Heritage 1974-1998 -- 5. The Exemption of Works of Art and Attitudes to Historic Interiors, Collections and Contents 1974-1998 -- 6. The Increasing Importance of Gardens, Parks and Landscapes 1945-1998 -- 7. Tourism and Repair Grants 1974-1998 -- 8. Public Benefit, Access and Education -- 9. The Significance of Smaller Houses -- 10. A New Direction: The National Trust's Country Houses Scheme 1974-1998 -- 11. The Role of Charitable Trusts for Country Houses -- 12. The Entity of the Country House Today and Tomorrow -- Index of Houses and Gardens.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The history of English houses in the past twenty-five years has proved to be infinitely more positive, and the view of their future more optimistic, than seemed conceivable at the time of The Destruction of the Country House exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974-75 when their very existence was threatened by new taxes. This book, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Historic Houses Association, looks at what has happened, what has been saved and what lost, what has been achieved through the development and improvement of legislation and by private owners as well as public bodies, what are the current problems, why professional thinking has broadened out and how public opinion has changed. It tells not only a remarkable and still largely unrecognised story but it relates it to the first period of recovery, after the Second World War, that began in 1948 with the appointment of the Gowers Committee to consider the future of historic houses and was shattered by the events of the mid 1970s."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0094791503
9780094791503

Subject:

Country homes Conservation and restoration England.
Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration England.
Interior architecture Conservation and restoration England.
Gardens Conservation and restoration England.
Architecture domestique Conservation et restauration Angleterre.
Architecture intérieure Conservation et restauration Angleterre.
Jardins Conservation et restauration Angleterre.
Architecture, Domestic Conservation and restoration.
Country homes Conservation and restoration.
Gardens Conservation and restoration.
Interior architecture Conservation and restoration.
Landhuizen.
Monumentenzorg.
Restauratie.
Country homes England History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic England History 20th century.
England.

Form/genre:

Souvenir publications.

Added entries:

Historic Houses Association.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201673
Call No.: NA7620 .C6 1998
Status: Available