Yorkshire: The North Riding by Jane Grenville and Nikolaus Pevsner

17 November 2023

jonathan pow

Whitby Abbey, “without any doubt one of the most moving ruins in England, on its bare windswept hill”, according to the revised volume Yorkshire: The North Riding in the Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England series, by Jane Grenville and Nikolaus Pevsner (Yale, £45 (£40.50); 978-0-300-25903-2); and this is one of the many fine colour photos commissioned from Jonathan Pow for the book

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