Newstead Abbey
Subtitle: a Nottinghamshire country house : its owners and architectural history 1540-1931
By: by Rosalys Coope and Pete Smith ; additional contributions by Maurice Howard, Colin Briden & John Beckett ; photography by David Wrightson
Contributors: Smith, Pete, author; Howard, Maurice, author; Briden, Colin, author; Beckett, J. V., author; Wrightson, David, photographer
Series: Thoroton Society record series -- volume 48; Record series (Thoroton Society) -- v. 48.
Publisher: Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Nottinghamshire, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780902719262
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Abbeys; History; Manors; Domestic Architecture; Newstead Abbey
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: After the Reformation: the monasteries and the country house / by Maurice Howard; title: The Augustinian priory, c. 1163-1539 / by Colin Briden; title: The Byrons' acquisition & transformation of the priory 1540-1640; title: After the Civil War: the building works of the second & third Lords Byron 1652-1695 / by Pete Smith; title: The fourth Lord Byron & his importance for Newstead 1695-1736; title: The 'Gothicking' of the abbey & park by the fifth Lord Byron 1736-1789 / by Rosalys Coope and Pete Smith; title: Byron the poet & sixth lord: his redecoration & furnishings 1789-1817; title: A new owner at Newstead: Colonel Thomas Wildman & his family; title: Colonel Thomas Wildman & his architect 1817-1859; title: The Webb family & their building works 1860-1925; title: Twentieth century postscript: from private to public ownership / by John Beckett; title: Retrospective / by Pete Smith; title: Appendix one. Household inventory of Newstead 1740; title: Appendix two. Newstead sale catalogue 1778; title: Appendix three. Visitors' descriptions of Newstead 1760-1814.