The Buildings of England

Series of books published by Penguin Books. Also referred to as Pevsner Architectural Guides, they were begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. The 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published between 1951 and 1974. The series was then extended to Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the late 1970s. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors. The final Scottish volume, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, was published in autumn 2016.