Julian Orbach is author of the revised edition of Somerset: South and West (2014) and co-author of Pembrokeshire (2004), Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (2006), and Gwynedd (2009) in The Buildings of Wales series.
“In deepest Wiltshire, I found an architectural feat as significant
as Stonehenge or Salisbury Cathedral.”—Simon Heffer, Daily
Telegraph
“Mr Orbach's Wiltshire combines Pevsnerian scholarship with a sure
eye, a keen Betjemanian sense of place and a warm heart for the
architectural heritage of his adopted county.”—Timothy Mowl,
Country Life
“A work which carries on the great traditions of Pevsners, and
retains the strengths of the first two Wiltshire volumes, while
augmenting them with the perceptions and descriptions generated by
a fresh eye on the county's buildings”—Richard Deane, Salisbury
Civic Society
“Orbach retains the use of Pevner's theme-based approach to the
county…But he also innovates: whilst previous editions have been
presented on manorial and municipal lines, Orbach introduces new
themes like transport which allow him to expand more
comprehensively on the importance of the Box Tunnel or Dundas'
aqueduct, for instance.”—Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, Friends of
Friendless Churches
“Orbach’s is a fine work of burrowing and scholarship. He writes
with energy. His text is often elliptical...a sort of shorthand
that lends the book an enjoyable immediacy.”—Jonathan Meades,
London Review of Books
“Clear and informative…Orbach gives a detailed account of the
history, archaeology and, of course, above all surviving buildings
of Old Sarum.”—Graham Kent, Journal of Historic Buildings and
Places
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