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Northamptonshire
Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the late seventeenth century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. The great houses are complemented by smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them Sir Thomas Tresham's eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton. Of no less interest in this county of "spires and squires" are the fine village churches, from Early Saxon Brixworth to the noble early Gothic buildings which so inspired the Victorians.
Northamptonshire Stone
An extension of the north-east Cotswolds, Northamptonshire is perhaps less well known for its plentiful and distinctive stone resources. Diana Sutherland discusses the great variety of stone in the county from a geological point of view. The book focuses more on the stone itself, its features and elements, and the location of quarries rather than the techniques of stone masonry and its use in architectural sense. Each chapter looks at a different type of stone including marlstone rock in the west of the county, the use of Northampton Sand ironstone, sandstones and limestone, Lincolnshire limestone, Wellingborough limestone and so on. Colour close-ups of examples of the various stones are presented alongside photographs of the county's houses, cottages, medieval churches and country houses where the different types of stone were mployed as building materials.
Mapping Ancient Landscapes in Northamptonshire
A record of the National Mapping Programme project in Northamptonshire. It recovered and mapped archaeological evidence from field systems, through settlement remains, to funerary monuments, and ranges from the Neolithic to the 20th century.
The Jewish Year Book
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Foreign Service List
Includes field staffs of Foreign Service, U.S. missions to international organizations, Agency for International Development, ACTION, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Department of Army, Navy and Air Force
