The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700

Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes, Richard K. Morriss (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2018
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-816-9 (ISBN)

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This first volume of its kind on the city of Hereford describes and illustrates the most important historic buildings in the city and traces their individual histories through a combination of archaeological and historical evidence.

The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval plan and contains some of the earliest houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. Three leading authorities on the buildings of the English Midlands have joined forces, combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical research and topographical analysis, to examine 24 of the most important buildings, from the great hall of the Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving brick town-house of c.1690. Fully illustrated with photographs, historic maps and explanatory diagrams, the case-studies include canonical and mercantile hall-houses of the Middle Ages, and mansions, commercial premises and simple suburban dwellings of the early modern period. Owners and builders are identified from documentary sources wherever possible, from the Bishop of Hereford and the medieval cathedral canons, through civic office-holding merchant dynasties to minor tradesmen otherwise known only for their brushes with the law.

Nigel Baker is a freelance archaeologist specialising in historic towns and has previously published books on Worcester and Gloucester, and Shrewsbury. He worked for Herefordshire Council for eight years and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham. Pat Hughes has 40 years experience in documentary research, studying the background to historic houses, townscapes and landscapes across the Midlands and the west of England; she is particularly interested in the insights provided by documents in interpreting standing buildings and archaeological sites. Richard K Morriss is a freelance archaeologist and author specialising in buildings, transport and industry, and lives in south-west Shropshire. For eight years he was Assistant Director of the City of Hereford Archaeological Unit; he is presently the archaeological consultant to four cathedrals, including Hereford.

List of Figures and plates

Acknowledgements

Picture credits

Summaries

Preface, by Ron Shoesmith and Nigel Baker

Chapter 1 Introduction by Nigel Baker

1.1 An introduction to Hereford

1.2 Hereford 1100-1700: a brief economic profile

1.3 The historic townscape of central Hereford

1.4 Building materials

1.5 The origins of city housing: the excavated evidence c.800 – c.1300

1.6 Cellars and undercrofts

Chapter 2 Medieval Houses, c.1200-c.1500, by Pat Hughes and Richard Morriss

(1) The Bishop’s Palace

(2) The Cathedral Barn

(3) 20 Church Street

(4) Harley Court

(5) 29 Castle Street

(6) 41a Bridge Street

(7) 50a Commercial Street

(8) Pool Farm

Chapter 3 Post-medieval houses, c.1500-c.1700, by Pat Hughes and Richard Morriss

(9) 26-27 High Town

(10) The Black Lion, Bridge Street

(11) 14 Church Street

(12) 25 Commercial Street

(13) 50a/52 St Owen Street

(14) Wyebridge House, Bridge Street

(15) The Grapes Tavern, West Street

(16) The Essex Arms, Widemarsh Street

(17) The Old House, High Town

(18) The former Farmers’ Club, Widemarsh Street

(19) The former Conservative Club, East Street

(20) 7 St Peter’s Street

(21) 64-66 Widemarsh Street

(22) 10-11 High Town

(23) 18 High Town

(24) The Mansion House, Widemarsh Street

Chapter 4 Discussion and conclusions, by Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes and Richard Morriss

Fitting into the framework – houses and house-plots

Internal planning before 1500

Internal planning after 1500

Business and industry

Heating

Timber framing before 1500

Timber framing after 1500

Roofs: structures and coverings

Floor structures

Masonry

The advent of brick

Internal decoration and furniture

Twenty-four buildings – the social sample

Selective glossary

Notes to archival sources

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2018
Zusatzinfo	b/w and colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-78570-816-3 / 1785708163
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-816-9 / 9781785708169
Zustand	Neuware