1975

S1.E1 ∙ The Medieval World

Thu, Oct 30, 1975

Alec Clifton-Taylor surveys the surviving medieval buildings of England, from timber-framed cottages, parish churches and moated farms to the great castles and cathedrals, with a special focus on Lincoln Cathedral, which he considered the finest.

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S1.E2 ∙ A New Heaven, a New Earth: The Tudor Renaissance

Thu, Nov 06, 1975

Roy Strong explores how new palaces built following the English Reformation gave English vernacular architecture a strong influence from the Italian Renaissance.

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S1.E3 ∙ The Cult of Grandeur

Thu, Nov 13, 1975

Robert Furneaux Jordan examines how three of England's most famous architects - Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor - brought about their English Baroque masterpieces after the Restoration of Charles II.

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S1.E4 ∙ A Sense of Proportion

Thu, Nov 20, 1975

John Julius Norwich considers the restraint and proportion of Palladian architecture of the 18th century.

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S1.E5 ∙ Landscape with Buildings

Thu, Nov 27, 1975

Sir John Summerson looks at the architectural era of the Adam brothers and John Nash, and how new ideas of the Romantic poets and painters saw a new relationship between landscapes and buildings.

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S1.E6 ∙ All That Money Could Buy

Thu, Dec 04, 1975

Mark Girouard examines how the prosperity of the Industrial Revolution and advent of the railways brought the Victorians an exuberance of both materials and style, with a special focus on Sir George Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival masterpiece, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station.

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S1.E7 ∙ A Full Life and an Honest Place

Thu, Dec 11, 1975

Patrick Nuttgens investigates how William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement brought about societal change with the Garden city movement and a renewed focus on craftsmanship in buildings such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.

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