An architecture of industrialism : the Liddell family of Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead, 1607-1808
This thesis presents an argument for the regionality of architectural functionality within an overarching ~Georgian Order~ of the eighteenth century British world. Following previous interpretations of such an order put forth by Leone (1988) and forwarded by Johnson to address English material culture (1993, 1996), the concept and character of a regional architecture for the emerging industrial centre of County Durham and Northumberland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is explored through the close examination of a particular case study, namely the estate of the coal-owning Liddell family at Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead. As a site no longer maintained by the landed family yet retaining key components of its early modern character, the critical analyses of the house, the wider estate, and its place within the landscape have necessitated the creation of a new methodology for the historical archaeology of buildings no longer extant, placing the sociopolitical and mercantile ventures and objectives of a particular family within their local and wider contexts. In this manner, estate landscapes may be understood as reflections of the specific objectives and circumstances of those acting upon them. Following
Hartfelder, Charles Desmond
An architecture of industrialism : the Liddell family of Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead, 1607-1808. This thesis presents an argument for the regionality of architectural functionality within an overarching ~Georgian Order~ of the eighteenth century British world. Following previous interpretations of such an order put forth by Leone (1988) and forwarded by Johnson to address English material culture (1993, 1996), the concept and character of a regional architecture for the emerging industrial centre of County Durham and Northumberland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is explored through the close examination of a particular case study, namely the estate of the coal-owning Liddell family at Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead. As a site no longer maintained by the landed family yet retaining key components of its early modern character, the critical analyses of the house, the wider estate, and its place within the landscape have necessitated the creation of a new methodology for the historical archaeology of buildings no longer extant, placing the sociopolitical and mercantile ventures and objectives of a particular family within their local and wider contexts. In this manner, estate landscapes may be understood as reflections of the specific objectives and circumstances of those acting upon them. Following
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