John Newman is the author of several other volumes for the
Pevsner Architectural Guides, including Kent: West and the Weald
(2012), Shropshire (2006), and Glamorgan and Gwent/Monmouthshire in
the Buildings of Wales series.
'Within four years, Newman had researched and written two volumes
on Kent, described by Pevsner as ‘the best of the whole series […]
[while also adding] I have nothing but admiration or his
perspicacity and his talent for finding the mot juste’. Returning
once again to the Kent volumes after nearly four decades in
academia at the Courtauld, those capacities which Pevsner
identified in Newman remain undiminished and are now matched by the
vast experience and expertise of one of England’s most
distinguished architectural historians. [This book is] not
something new but something mature and wiser’—Owen Hopkins,
Burlington Magazine
*Burlington Magazine*
‘Newman’s prose strikes just the right balance between telling and
sharing, combining authority and impulse, and steering deftly
between Pevsnerian analysis and Ian Nairn’s evocation of a sense of
place. It is just the right style to dip into, to invite
distraction. . .Whatever the case, the new edition represents the
maturation, not the replacement of the old. Pevsner himself
declared that Newman’s Kentish volumes represented ‘the best in the
series’; it is hard to disagree.’—Geraint Franklin, Burlington
Magazine
*Burlington Magazine*
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