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The '''''Pevsner Architectural Guides''''' are four series of [[guide book]]s to the [[architecture]] of the [[British Isles]]. '''''The Buildings of England''''' series was begun in 1945 by the art historian [[Nikolaus Pevsner|Sir Nikolaus Pevsner]], with its forty-six original volumes published between 1951 and 1974. The fifteen volumes in '''''The Buildings of Scotland''''' series were completed between 1978 and 2016, and the ten in '''''The Buildings of Wales''''' series between 1979 and 2009. The volumes in all three series have been periodically revised by various authors; ''Scotland'' and ''Wales'' have been partially revised, and ''England'' has been fully revised and reorganised into fifty-six volumes. '''''The Buildings of Ireland''''' series was begun in 1979 and remains incomplete, with six of a planned eleven volumes published. A standalone volume covering the [[Isle of Man]] was published in 2023.

The series were published by [[Penguin Books]] until 2002, when they were sold to [[Yale University Press]].

==Origin and research methods==
After moving to the United Kingdom from his native Germany as a refugee in the 1930s, Nikolaus Pevsner found that the study of [[architectural history]] had little status in academic circles, and that the amount of information available, especially to travellers wanting to inform themselves about the architecture of a particular district, was limited. He had previously written ''An Outline of European Architecture'' for the [[Pelican Books|Pelican]] imprint of [[Penguin Books]]. When he was invited to suggest ideas for future publications by Penguin founder [[Allen Lane]], he proposed two: the [[Pelican History of Art|''Pelican History of Art'']], and a series of comprehensive architectural guides to the English counties which became ''The Buildings of England''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsDTsOuQwI |title=‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the ‘Buildings of …' Series - Charles O'Brien |date=4 February 2025 |last=O'Brien |first=Charles |type=Video |publisher=Gresham College}}</ref>

Work on ''The Buildings of England'' began in 1945. Lane employed two part-time assistants, both German refugee art historians, who prepared notes for Pevsner from published sources. Sources used included the inventories of the [[Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England]], the [[Survey of London]], and the [[Victoria County History|''Victoria County History'']].<ref name=":1" /> Pevsner, who held positions at [[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College, University of London]] and the [[University of Cambridge]], spent the academic holidays touring the country to make personal observations and to carry out local research, before writing up the finished volumes. The first of the original forty-six volumes, ''Cornwall'', was published in 1951, and the last, ''Staffordshire'', in 1974.<ref name=":1" />

Pevsner wrote thirty-two volumes himself and ten with collaborators. A further four of the original series were written by other authors: the two Gloucestershire volumes by David Verey, and the two volumes on Kent by [[John Newman (architectural historian)|John Newman]]. The first volume of ''The Buildings of Scotland'' was published in 1978, and the first volumes in ''The Buildings of Wales'' and ''The Buildings of Ireland'' in 1979. Revisions to the original English series began in 1962, and continued after Pevsner's death in 1983. Several volumes are now in their third or fourth revisions, and the final unrevised first edition, ''Staffordshire'', was superseded by an updated edition in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner-series-history/|title=Pevsner-Series and history|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|access-date=14 April 2024}}</ref>

==''The Buildings of England''==
The books are compact and intended to meet the needs of both specialists and the general reader. Each contains an extensive introduction to the architectural history and styles of the area, followed by a town-by-town{{snd}}and in the case of larger settlements, street-by-street{{snd}}account of individual buildings. These are often grouped under the heading "Perambulation", as Pevsner intended the books to be used as the reader was walking about the area. The guides offer both detailed coverage of the most notable buildings and notes on lesser-known and [[Vernacular architecture|vernacular]] buildings; all building types are covered but there is a particular emphasis on churches and public buildings. Each volume has a central section with several dozen pages of photographs, originally in black and white, though colour illustrations have featured in revised volumes published by [[Yale University Press]] since 2003.

===Boundaries===
The volumes originally used the boundaries of the [[historic counties of England]], which were current at the time of writing.{{sfn|Cherry|1998|p=?}} They largely continue to use the historic boundaries, but have been partially updated to reflect changes in London, Birmingham and the [[Black Country]], and Cumbria. The volume on the historic county of [[Middlesex]], for example, has been superseded by three of the six volumes covering the [[Greater London]] area, whereas [[Tyne and Wear]], which was established from parts of [[County Durham]] and [[Northumberland]] in 1974, is covered in the volumes about those two counties.

===Volumes in print and their editions===
Since 1962, the guides have undergone a gradual programme of updating to reflect architectural-history scholarship and to include significant new buildings. Pevsner left virtually all the revisions to others, acting as supervisor only. He ultimately revised only two of his original editions alone: ''London 1: The Cities of London and Westminster'' (1962) and ''Cambridgeshire'' (1970). Both were later revised again by others. The programme of revision of first editions was completed in 2024 with publication of the second edition of ''Staffordshire'', replacing that published in 1974.

Until 1953, all volumes were published in paperback only, after which both hardback and paperback versions were issued. The revision of ''London: 1'' in 1962 was the first volume to be issued in hardback alone, and no further paperbacks were issued after 1964. Until 1970 volumes bore a sequential <small>BE</small> reference number, with ''Cornwall'' being <small>BE</small>1. The last volume to be so numbered was ''Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean'' (<small>BE</small>41). Thereafter [[ISBN]]s identify each volume. Beginning in 1983, a larger format was introduced, and all subsequent new editions have been issued in this format (while, pending revisions, pre-1983 volumes continued to be reprinted in the original, smaller format). All editions are now published by [[Yale University Press]].

The list below is of the volumes that are currently in print; for superseded volumes, [[#Superseded and unpublished volumes|see below]]. Where revisions were spread over more than one volume, the preceding edition remained in print until the whole area had been revised.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title of current edition !! data-sort-type="isoDate"|First<br /> edition  !! Co-author(s)<br />or{{efn|name=fn1|Pevsner is not credited as author in these editions}} sole author !! Second<br /> edition !! Co-author(s)<br />or{{efn|name=fn1}} sole author !! Third<br /> edition !! Co-author(s)<br />or{{efn|name=fn1}} sole author !! Current ISBN
|-
| ''Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough''{{efn|Peterborough previously included in the 1962 edition of ''Northamptonshire''}} || 1968 ||  || 2014  || {{sortname|Charles|O'Brien|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20821-4}}
|-
| ''Berkshire'' || 1966 ||  || 2010 || {{sortname|Geoffrey|Tyack|nolink=1}}, Simon Bradley ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12662-4}}
|-
| ''Birmingham and the Black Country'' || 1966–1974{{efn|First published across three volumes: ''Warwickshire'', ''Worcestershire'', and ''Staffordshire''}}|| || 2022 || {{sortname|Andy|Foster|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22391-0}}
|-
| ''Buckinghamshire'' || 1960 ||  || 1994  || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09584-5}}
|-
| ''Cambridgeshire'' || 1954 ||  ||  1970  ||  || 2015  || {{sortname|Simon|Bradley|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20596-1}}
|-
| ''Cheshire'' || 1971 || {{sortname|Edward|Hubbard|Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)}} || 2011 || {{sortname|Clare|Hartwell|nolink=1}}, Matthew Hyde ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-17043-6}}
|-
| ''Cornwall'' || 1951 || || 1970 || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2014 || {{sortname|Peter|Beacham|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12668-6}}
|-
| ''County Durham'' || 1953 || || 1983 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} || 2021 || Martin Roberts || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22504-4}}
|-
| ''Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness'' || data-sort-value="1967"|1967{{efn|First published as ''Cumberland and Westmorland''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || 2010 || {{sortname|Matthew|Hyde|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12663-1}}
|-
| ''Derbyshire'' || 1953 || || 1978 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} || 2016 || {{sortname|Clare|Hartwell|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-21559-5}}
|-
| ''Devon'' || data-sort-value="1952"|1952{{efn|First published as two volumes: ''North Devon'' and ''South Devon''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || 1991 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09596-8}}
|-
| ''Dorset'' || 1972 || {{sortname|John|Newman|link=John Newman (architectural historian)}} || 2018 || {{sortname|Michael|Hill|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22478-8}}
|-
| ''Essex'' || 1954 || || 1965 || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2007 || {{sortname|James|Bettley|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-11614-4}}
|-
| ''Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds'' || 1970{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|David|Verey|nolink=1}} || 1979{{efn|name=fn1}} ||  || 1999{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|Alan|Brooks|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09604-0}}
|-
| ''Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and Forest of Dean'' || 1970{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|David|Verey|nolink=1}} || 1976{{efn|name=fn1}} ||  || 2002{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|Alan|Brooks|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09733-7}}
|-
| ''Hampshire: South'' || data-sort-value="1967"|1967{{efn|First published as ''Hampshire and the Isle of Wight''}} || {{sortname|David W.|Lloyd|nolink=1}} || 2018 || {{sortname|Charles|O'Brien|nolink=1}}, Bruce Bailey ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22503-7}}
|-
| ''Hampshire: Winchester and The North'' || data-sort-value="1967"|1967{{efn|First published as ''Hampshire and the Isle of Wight''}} || {{sortname|David W.|Lloyd|nolink=1}} || 2010 || {{sortname|Michael|Bullen|nolink=1}}, John Crook,<br />Rodney Hubbuck ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12084-4}}
|-
| ''Herefordshire'' || 1963 || || 2012 || {{sortname|Alan|Brooks|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12575-7}}
|-
| ''Hertfordshire'' || 1953 || || 1977 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} || 2019 || {{sortname|James|Bettley|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09611-8}}
|-
| ''Isle of Wight'' || data-sort-value="1967"|1967{{efn|First published as ''Hampshire and the Isle of Wight''}} || {{sortname|David W.|Lloyd|nolink=1}} || 2006 || {{sortname|David W.|Lloyd|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10733-3}}
|-
| ''Kent: North East and East'' || 1969{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|John|Newman|nolink=1}} || 1976{{efn|name=fn1}} ||  || 1983{{efn|name=fn1}}<br /> 2013 (4th){{efn|name=fn1}} || ||  {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18506-5}}
|-
| ''Kent: West and the Weald'' || 1969{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|John|Newman|nolink=1}} || 1976{{efn|name=fn1}} ||  || 2012{{efn|name=fn1}} ||  ||  {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18509-6}}
|-
| ''Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West'' || data-sort-value="1969"|1969{{efn|name=fn8|First published as ''Lancashire 1: The Industrial and Commercial South''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || 2006 || {{sortname|Richard|Pollard|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10910-8}}
|-
| ''Lancashire: Manchester and the South East'' || data-sort-value="1969"|1969{{efn|name=fn8}} || || 2004 || {{sortname|Clare|Hartwell|nolink=1}}, Matthew Hyde ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10583-4}}
|-
| ''Lancashire: North'' || 1969 || || 2009 || {{sortname|Clare|Hartwell|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12667-9}}
|-
| ''Leicestershire and Rutland'' || 1960 || || 1984 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09618-7}}
|-
| ''Lincolnshire'' || 1964 || {{sortname|John|Harris|John Harris (curator)}} || 1989 || {{sortname|Nicholas|Antram|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09620-0}}
|-
| ''London 1: The City of London'' || data-sort-value="1957"|1957{{efn|name=efn9|First published in ''London: The Cities of London and Westminster''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || data-sort-value="1962"|1962{{efn|name=efn9}} || || 1973{{efn|name=efn9}}<br />1997 (4th){{efn|name=fn10|Not identified as a Fourth Edition in the text but as a "successor volume".}} || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}}<br /> Simon Bradley || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09624-8}}
|-
| ''London 2: South'' || data-sort-value="1952"|1951–1976{{efn|name=fn11|First published across four separate volumes: ''Middlesex'', ''London, except the Cities of London and Westminster'', ''Surrey'' and ''Kent: West and the Weald''}} || || 1983 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09651-4}}
|-
| ''London 3: North West'' || data-sort-value="1951"|1951–1952{{efn|name=fn12|First published in two separate volumes: ''Middlesex'' and ''London, except the Cities of London and Westminster''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || 1991 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09652-1 }}
|-
| ''London 4: North'' || data-sort-value="1951"|1951–1952{{efn|name=fn12}}|| || 1998 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09653-8}}
|-
| ''London 5: East'' || data-sort-value="1952"|1952–1965{{efn|name=fn13|First published in two separate volumes: ''London, except the Cities of London and Westminster'' and ''Essex''}} || || data-sort-value="1998"|1998{{efn|Docklands area only{{snd}}See Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} || 2005 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}}<br />Charles O'Brien || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10701-2}}
|-
| ''London 6: Westminster'' || data-sort-value="1957"|1957{{efn|name=efn9}} || || data-sort-value="1962"|1962{{efn|name=efn9}} || || 1973{{efn|name=efn9}}<br />2003 (4th){{efn|name=fn10}} || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}}<br /> Simon Bradley || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09595-1}}
|-
| ''Norfolk 1: Norwich and North East'' || 1962 || || 1997 || {{sortname|Bill|Wilson|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09607-1}}
|-
| ''Norfolk 2: North-west and South'' || 1962 || || 1999 || {{sortname|Bill|Wilson|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09657-6}}
|-
| ''Northamptonshire'' || 1961{{efn|Including Peterborough.}} || || 1973{{efn|Excluding Peterborough{{snd}}see ''Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough'' above.}} || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} || 2013 || {{sortname|Bruce|Bailey|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18507-2}}
|-
| ''Northumberland'' || 1957 || {{sort|Richmond, Ian A.|(Ian A. Richmond)}}{{efn|Ian Richmond credited as a contributor rather than co-author.}} || 1992 || {{sortname|John|Grundy|John Grundy (television presenter)}}, Grace McCombie<br />Peter Ryder, Humphrey Welfare ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09638-5}}
|-
| ''Nottinghamshire'' || 1951 || || 1979 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}} || 2020 || Clare Hartwell || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-24783-1}}
|-
| ''Oxfordshire: North and West'' || data-sort-value="1974"|1974{{efn|name=fn18|First published as ''Oxfordshire''{{snd}}see above.}} || {{sortname|Jennifer|Sherwood|nolink=1}} || 2017{{efn|name=fn1}} || {{sortname|Alan|Brooks|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20930-3}}
|-
| ''Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South East'' || data-sort-value="1974"|1974{{efn|name=fn18}} || {{sortname|Jennifer|Sherwood|nolink=1}} || 2023 || {{sortname|Simon|Bradley|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20929-7}}
|-
| ''Shropshire'' || 1958 || || 2006 || {{sortname|John|Newman|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12083-7}}
|-
| ''Somerset: North and Bristol'' || 1958 || || 2011 || {{sortname|Andrew|Foyle|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12658-7}}
|-
| ''Somerset: South and West'' || 1958 || || 2014 || {{sortname|Julian|Orbach|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}| || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20740-8}}
|-
| ''Staffordshire'' || 1974 || || 2024 || {{sortname|Christopher|Wakeling|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-21835-0}}
|-
| ''Suffolk: East'' || data-sort-value="1961"|1961{{efn|name=fn20|First published as ''Suffolk''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes.}} || || 1974 || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2015 || {{sortname|James|Bettley|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-19654-2}}
|-
| ''Suffolk: West'' || data-sort-value="1961"|1961{{efn|name=fn20}} || || 1974 || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2015 || {{sortname|James|Bettley|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-19655-9}}
|-
| ''Surrey'' || 1962 || {{sortname|Ian|Nairn}} || 1971 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} || 2022 || {{sortname|Charles|O'Brien|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-23478-7 }}
|-
| ''Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove'' || data-sort-value="1965"|1965{{efn|First published as ''Sussex''}}|| {{sort|Nairn, Ian|(Ian Nairn)}}{{efn|Ian Nairn was only indirectly involved in the text under revision in this volume.}} || 2013 || {{sortname|Nicholas|Antram|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18473-0}}
|-
| ''Sussex: West'' || 1965{{efn|First published as ''Sussex''}}|| {{sortname|Ian|Nairn|nolink=1}} || 2019 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}}, Tim Hudson,<br />Jeremy Musson ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22521-1}}
|-
| ''Warwickshire'' || 1966 || {{sortname|Alexandra|Wedgwood|nolink=1}} || 2016{{efn|Excluding Birmingham and the Black Country{{snd}}see above.}} || {{sortname|Chris|Pickford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-21560-1}}
|-
| ''Wiltshire'' || 1963 || || 1975 || {{sortname|Bridget|Cherry|nolink=1}} || 2021 || Julian Orbach || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-25120-3}}
|-
| ''Worcestershire'' || 1968 || || 2007 || {{sortname|Alan|Brooks|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-11298-6}}
|-
| ''Yorkshire: The North Riding'' || 1966 || || 2023 || {{sortname|Jane|Grenville|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-25903-2}}
|-
| ''Yorkshire: The West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North'' || data-sort-value="1959"|1959{{efn|name=fn23|First published as ''Yorkshire: The West Riding''{{snd}}see Superseded and unpublished volumes}} || || 1967{{efn|name=fn23|}} || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2009 || {{sortname|Peter|Leach|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12665-5}}
|-
| ''Yorkshire: The West Riding: Sheffield and the South'' || data-sort-value="1959"|1959{{efn|name=fn23|}} || || 1967{{efn|name=fn23|}} || {{sortname|Enid|Radcliffe|nolink=1}} || 2017 || {{sortname|Ruth|Harman|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0300-22468-9}}
|-
| ''Yorkshire: York and The East Riding'' || 1972 || || 1995 || {{sortname|David|Neave|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09593-7}}
|}

===''City Guides''===
The first of the paperback City Guides, covering Manchester, appeared in 2001. It featured a new format with integrated colour illustrations. In most cases the City Guides have preceded a revision of the volume on the county in which they are located, although they go into greater detail than the county volumes and have more illustrations. The Bristol guide, for example, superseded part of ''North Somerset and Bristol'', which at that point was fifty years old, and provided material for ''Somerset: North and Bristol'', published three years later. Two of the guides, one covering Hull and the other Newcastle and Gateshead, remain the most recent volumes on their areas of coverage, as the corresponding county volume has not been revised since their publication. This series appears to be on a hiatus, with no new volumes published since 2010 and none confirmed as in planning.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title of current edition !! data-sort-type="isoDate"|First<br /> edition  !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Current ISBN
|-
| ''Bath'' || 2003 || {{sortname|Michael|Forsyth|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10177-5}}
|-
| ''Birmingham'' || 2005 || {{sortname|Andy|Foster|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10731-9}}
|-
| ''Brighton and Hove'' || 2002 || {{sortname|Nicholas|Antram|nolink=1}}, Richard Morrice || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12661-7}}
|-
| ''Bristol'' || 2008 || {{sortname|Andrew|Foyle|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10442-4}}
|-
| ''Hull'' || 2010 || {{sortname|David|Neave|nolink=1}}, Susan Neave || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10702-9}}
|-
| ''Leeds'' || 2005 || {{sortname|Susan|Wrathmell|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-14172-6}}
|-
| ''Liverpool'' || 2003 || {{sortname|Joseph|Sharples|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10258-1}}
|-
| ''Manchester'' || 2001 || {{sortname|Clare|Hartwell|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09666-8}}
|-
| ''Newcastle and Gateshead'' || 2009 || {{sortname|Grace|McCombie|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12664-8}}
|-
| ''Nottingham'' || 2008 || {{sortname|Elain|Harwood|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-12666-2}}
|-
| ''Sheffield'' || 2004 || {{sortname|Ruth|Harman|nolink=1}}, John Minnis || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10585-8}}
|-
|}

Two supplementary works{{snd}}thus far the only of their type{{snd}}were published in 1998, one covering London's City Churches and the other the Docklands area (see ''London Docklands'' in [[#Superseded and unpublished volumes|Superseded and unpublished volumes]] below). Both were issued in the format of the main series rather than the City Guides. However, unlike the Docklands edition which represented preliminary work for an expanded main volume, the City Churches volume augmented the text in ''London 1: The City'', published the previous year. The continued development of the Docklands area meant that the volume was superseded when ''London 5: East'' was published seven years later, but the City Churches volume remains current and was reissued by Yale in 2002.

*''London: The City Churches'' (1998) (Simon Bradley) {{ISBN|978-0-300-09655-2}}

==''Buildings of Scotland''==
The first volume of ''The Buildings of Scotland'' was ''Lothian, except Edinburgh'', which was written by [[Colin McWilliam]] and published in 1978. Nikolaus Pevsner was enthusiastic about establishing a Scottish series, having responded warmly to an unrealised 1959 suggestion by the architectural historian [[Andor Gomme]] that the latter could produce it. A major contributor to the Scottish series is John Gifford, who before his death in 2013 authored five volumes and oversaw research on all but one of the remainder.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=O'Brien |first=Charles |date=20 Oct 2016 |title=A Brief History of Pevsner's Buildings of Scotland series |url=https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2016/10/20/a-brief-history-of-pevsners-buildings-of-scotland-series/ |access-date=10 Feb 2024 |website=Yale University Press London Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>  
After ''Lothian'', which was the only volume published in the original small format, a major task was producing ''Edinburgh'' (1984) and ''Glasgow'' (1990), which were ambitious in their scope of coverage of urban buildings. The remainder of Scotland was covered in the following decades, with the final volume, ''Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire'', published in 2016.<ref name=":0" /> A revision of ''Lothian'' was published in 2024, the first full revision of a Scottish volume.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lothian |url=https://yalebooks.co.uk/9780300259049/lothian |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=Yale University Press London |language=en-GB}}</ref> 
 
The series is organised using a mixture of Scotland's current [[council areas]] (e.g. ''Highland and Islands'') and its [[Shires of Scotland|historic shires]] (e.g. ''Fife'' and ''Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire''). Some of the Scottish volumes are internally subdivided; for example'','' ''Argyll and Bute'' has separate gazetteers for mainland Argyll, its islands, and Bute. Unlike ''The Buildings of England'', none of the Scottish volumes adopt a hierarchy of ecclesiastical buildings, instead grouping them together.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title of current edition !! data-sort-type="isoDate"|First<br /> edition  !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Second<br /> edition !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Current ISBN
|-
| ''Aberdeenshire: North and Moray'' || 2015 || {{sortname|David W.|Walker|nolink=1}}, Matthew Woodworth ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-20428-5}}
|-
| ''Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen'' || 2015 || {{sortname|Joseph|Sharples|nolink=1}}, David W. Walker, Matthew Woodworth ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-21555-7}}
|-
| ''Argyll and Bute'' || 2002 || {{sortname|Frank|Arneil Walker|link=Frank Arneil Walker}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09670-5}}
|-
| ''Ayrshire and Arran'' || 2012 || {{sortname|Rob|Close|nolink=1}}, Anne Riches ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-14170-2}}
|-
| ''Borders'' || 2006 || {{sortname|Kitty|Cruft|nolink=1}}, John Dunbar, Richard Fawcett ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10702-9}}
|-
| ''Dumfries and Galloway'' || 1996 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09671-2}}
|-
| ''Dundee and Angus'' || 2012 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-14171-9}}
|-
| ''Edinburgh'' || 1984 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}}, [[Colin McWilliam]], David Walker ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09672-9}}
|-
| ''Fife'' || 1988 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09673-6}}
|-
| ''Glasgow'' || 1990 || {{sortname|Elizabeth|Williamson|nolink=1}}, Anne Riches, Malcom Higgs ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09674-3}}
|-
| ''Highland and Islands'' || 1992 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09625-5}}
|-
| ''Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire'' || 2016 || {{sortname|Rob|Close|nolink=1}}, John Gifford, Frank Arneil Walker ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-21558-8}}
|-
| ''Lothian{{efn|originally published as ''Lothian, except Edinburgh''}}'' || 1978 || {{sortname|Colin|McWilliam|nolink=1}} || 2024 || {{sortname|Jane|Geddes|nolink=1}}, Ian Gow, Aonghus Mackechnie, Chris Tabraham || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09626-2}}
|-
| ''Perth and Kinross'' || 2007 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}} ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10922-1}}
|-
| ''Stirling and Central Scotland'' || 2002 || {{sortname|John|Gifford|nolink=1}}, Frank Arneil Walker ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09594-4}}
|}


==''Buildings of Wales''==
The series has also been extended to Wales, and was completed with the issue of ''Gwynedd'' in 2009. Only the first volume, ''Powys'' (1979), appeared in the original small format style; this volume has now been superseded by a revised large-format edition, published in 2013. The volumes of the series are organised using a combination of the current [[Principal areas of Wales|principal areas]] (e.g. ''Pembrokeshire''), the [[Preserved counties of Wales|preserved counties]] (e.g. ''Gwynedd''), and the [[Historic counties of Wales|historic counties]] (e.g. ''Glamorgan'').

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title of current edition !! data-sort-type="isoDate"|First<br /> edition  !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Second<br /> edition !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Current ISBN
|-
| ''Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion'' || 2006 || Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach, Robert Scourfield ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10179-9}}
|-
| ''Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire)'' || 1986 || [[Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)|Edward Hubbard]] || 2003 || [[Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)|Edward Hubbard]] || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09627-9}}
|-
| ''Glamorgan'' || 1995|| [[John Newman (architectural historian)|John Newman]] ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09629-3}}
|-
| ''Gwent/Monmouthshire'' || 2000 || [[John Newman (architectural historian)|John Newman]] ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09630-9}}
|-
| ''Gwynedd'' || 2009|| Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach, Adam Voelcker ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-14169-6}}
|-
| ''Pembrokeshire'' || 2004 || Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach, Robert Scourfield ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}  || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10178-2}}
|-
| ''Powys: Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire'' || 1979 || Richard Haslam || 2013 || Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18508-9}}
|}

==''Buildings of Ireland''==
The Irish series is incomplete, with six volumes being published between 1979 and 2020. Research is underway some of the remaining five volumes: ''Belfast, Antrim, and County Down''; ''Connacht/Connaught''; ''Dublin: County''; ''Munster, except Cork''; and ''South Leinster''{{Efn|Which will cover the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow.}}. The series generally uses the traditional [[provinces of Ireland|provinces]] and [[counties of Ireland]] as its boundaries and ignores the [[Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border|Irish border]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title of current edition !! data-sort-type="isoDate"|First<br /> edition  !! Co-author(s)<br />or sole author !! Current ISBN
|-
| ''Belfast, Antrim and County Down'' || in preparation ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}
|-
| ''Connacht/Connaught'' || in preparation ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}
|-
| ''Cork: City and County'' || 2020 || {{sortname|Frank|Keohane|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-22487-0}}
|-
| ''Dublin'' || 2005 || {{sortname|Christine|Casey|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-10923-8}}
|-
| ''Dublin: County'' || in preparation ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}
|-
| ''Munster, except Cork'' || in preparation ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}
|-
| ''North West Ulster: The Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone'' || 1979 || {{sortname|Alistair|Rowan|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09667-5}}
|-
| ''Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly'' || 2019 || {{sortname|Andrew|Tierney|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-23204-2}}
|-
| ''North Leinster'' || 1988 || {{sortname|Alistair|Rowan|nolink=1}}, Christine Casey || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-09668-2}}
|-
| ''South Leinster'' || in preparation ||{{n/a}} ||{{n/a}}
|-
| ''South Ulster: The Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan'' || 1992 || {{sortname|Kevin|Mulligan|nolink=1}} || {{ISBNT|978-0-300-18601-7}}
|-
|}

==''Buildings of the Isle of Man''==
A standalone volume covering the island, authored by Jonathan Kewley, was published in early 2023.<ref name="Yale WIP">{{cite web |title=Pevsner Architectural Guides |url=https://yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner |access-date=1 June 2021 |publisher=Yale University Press}}</ref> 

* ''Isle of Man'' (2023) {{ISBN|978-0-300-22502-0}} (Jonathan Kewley)

==Treatment of bridges==
A number of bridges connect areas covered by different volumes. However, there is no single approach for which volume should include the structure in its main gazetteer. In some cases, one volume refers the reader to the other, and in other cases only a few lines appear in one volume and a fuller entry appears in the other. In a very few cases (listed below) a full entry appears in both volumes.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Bridge !! Connection !! Volume(s) of main entry 
|-
| [[Coldstream Bridge]] || Berwickshire–Northumberland || ''Borders''<br />''Northumberland''
|-
| [[Erskine Bridge]] || Renfrewshire–Dunbartonshire || ''Stirling and Central Scotland''<br />''Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire''
|-
| [[Forth Bridge]]<br />[[Forth Road Bridge]] || West Lothian–Fife || ''Lothian''
|-
| [[Humber Bridge]] || Lincolnshire–Yorkshire || ''Lincolnshire''
|-
| [[Kincardine Bridge]] || Stirlingshire–Fife || ''Fife''
|-
| [[Queen Elizabeth II Bridge]] || Essex–Kent || ''Essex''<br />''Kent: West and the Weald''
|-
| [[Severn Bridge]] || Monmouthshire–Gloucestershire || ''Gloucestershire 2''
|-
| [[Second Severn Crossing]] || Monmouthshire–Gloucestershire || ''Gwent/Monmouthshire''
|-
| [[Tamar Bridge]] || Devon–Cornwall || ''Cornwall''
|-
| [[Tay Rail Bridge|Tay Bridge]]<br />[[Tay Road Bridge]] || Dundee–Fife || ''Dundee and Angus''
|}

==Superseded and unpublished volumes==
The revision of the series has rendered some original volumes obsolete, usually as the area of coverage has changed. For example, the county of [[Cumbria]] was created after the publication of ''Cumberland and Westmorland'' and ''North Lancashire'', leading to the merger of material from both volumes in a single-volume ''Cumbria'', a revision with a new geographical focus. The following volumes have been wholly or partially superseded:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Original volume
!publication date
!Current volume(s)
|-
|''Cumberland and Westmorland''
|1967
|''Cumbria''
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Hampshire & the Isle of Wight''
| rowspan="3" |1967
|''Hampshire: South''
|-
|''Hampshire: Winchester and the North''
|-
|''Isle of Wight''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''London: The Cities of London and Westminster''
| rowspan="2" |1957
|''London 1: The City of London''
|-
|''London 6: Westminster''
|-
| rowspan="4" |''London, except the Cities of London and Westminster''
| rowspan="4" |1952
|''London 2: South''
|-
|''London 3: North-West''
|-
|''London 4: West''
|-
|''London 5: East''
|-
|''London Docklands''
|1998
|''London 5: East''
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Middlesex''
| rowspan="3" |1951
|''London 2: South''
|-
|''London 3: North-West''
|-
|''London 4: West''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Northamptonshire''
| rowspan="2" |1961
|''Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough''
|-
|''Northamptonshire''
|-
|''North Devon''
|1952
| rowspan="2" |''Devon''
|-
|''South Devon''
|1952
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Lancashire 2: The Rural North''
| rowspan="2" |1969
|''Cumbria''
|-
|''Lancashire: North''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Lancashire 1: The Industrial and Commercial South''
| rowspan="2" |1969
|''Lancashire: Manchester and the South East''
|-
|''Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Suffolk''
| rowspan="2" |1961
|''Suffolk: East''
|-
|''Suffolk: West''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Sussex''
| rowspan="2" |1965
|''Sussex: East''
|-
|''Sussex: West''
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Yorkshire: The West Riding''
| rowspan="2" |1959
|''Yorkshire: The West Riding: Bradford, Leeds, and the North''
|-
|''Yorkshire: The West Riding: Sheffield and the South''
|}
In some published volumes and in advance publicity, certain titles were announced which were ultimately never published. A number of factors accounted for this, including the readiness of parts of the text covering certain areas and the anticipated size of the volumes. Unpublished titles included:

*''Argyll, Bute and Stirling''{{sfn|Cherry|1998|p=?}}
*''Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire''{{efn|Announced in the Dumfries and Galloway volume (1996)}}
*''Dublin: City and County''{{sfn|Cherry|1998|p=?}}
*''London III''{{efn|Announced in the first edition of the West Kent volume (1969)}}
*''South Strathclyde''{{efn|Announced in the Fife volume (1992)}}

==Related works==
In 1995 Penguin, in conjunction with [[English Heritage]], released a publication based on the guides entitled ''Looking at Buildings''. Focusing on the East Riding of Yorkshire volume, Pevsner's text was adapted as an introduction, with a greater number of illustrations than the main guides. No further print publications were issued, but the title survives as an introductory website to architectural terms and selected buildings which feature in the Pevsner guides.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/index.html |title=Looking at Buildings |publisher=Pevsner Architectural Guides |access-date=11 February 2020 }}</ref>

In 1995 a [[CD-ROM]] entitled ''A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England'' was issued by [[Oxford University Press]], designed as a searchable database of the volumes published for England only. A second edition was released in 2005. Bibliographies of the guides themselves were published in 1983, 1998 and 2012 by the [[Penguin Collectors Society]].

In 2016, Yale University Press published three volumes, each serving as an introduction to some of the buildings and the architectural terms mentioned in the text of the guides. Published as ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions'' these are: an architectural glossary (also available as an [[Mobile app|app]]), a volume focusing on church buildings and another on dwelling houses (including [[vernacular architecture]]).

===Celebratory volumes===
In 1986, Penguin published an anthology from Pevsner's volumes edited by [[Bridget Cherry]] and [[John Newman (architectural historian)|John Newman]], ''The Best Buildings of England'', {{ISBN|0-670-81283-8}}. It has an introduction by Newman assessing Pevsner's aims and methods. In 2001, the Penguin Collectors Society published ''The Buildings of England: a Celebration'', edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry, fifty years after BE1 was published: it includes twelve essays and a selection of text from the series.{{sfn|Cherry|Bradley|2001|loc=Introduction}} In 2012, Susie Harries, one of Pevsner's biographers, wrote ''The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: A Sixtieth Anniversary Catalogue of the Pevsner Architectural Guides'', which was published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies by the [[Penguin Collectors Society]].{{sfn|Harries|Mackay|2012|p=2}}

==''Travels with Pevsner''==
In 1997, the [[BBC]] broadcast a series of documentaries<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fj1c7|title=BBC Two - Travels with Pevsner|website=BBC}}</ref> entitled ''Travels with Pevsner'', in which six writers and broadcasters travelled through a county which had particular significance to them. They revisited buildings mentioned by Pevsner, critically examining his views on them. A further series was broadcast in 1998. John Grundy, who presented the programme on Northumberland, was one of the revisers of that county volume. Both series were accompanied by booklets published by the BBC, describing the buildings featured in the programmes and suggesting others to explore. The counties visited and the travellers were:
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===Series One===

*Norfolk ([[Dan Cruikshank]])
*North Yorkshire ([[Janet Street-Porter]])
*Dorset ([[Patrick Wright (historian)|Patrick Wright]])
*County Durham ([[Lucinda Lambton]])
*Warwickshire ([[Germaine Greer]])
*Surrey ([[Michael Bracewell (writer)|Michael Bracewell]])
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===Series Two===

*Derbyshire ([[Joan Bakewell]])
*Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ([[Philip Hoare]])
*Worcestershire ([[Jonathan Meades]])
*Suffolk ([[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]])
*Northumberland ([[John Grundy (television presenter)|John Grundy]])
*Bristol and Somerset ([[Philippa Gregory]])
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In both series, extracts from Pevsner's text were read by [[Benjamin Whitrow]].

==See also==
{{Portal|Architecture|Books}}
* ''[[Survey of London]]''{{snd}}an even more detailed but incomplete account of the architecture of London
* The [[Penguin Collectors Society]] for the Pevsner Memorial Trust
* ''[[The King's England]]''
* [[Victoria County History]]
* ''[[Buildings of the United States]]''{{snd}}a series inspired by the ''Buildings of England''


==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
<references/>

==Sources==
* {{cite book
|last=Cherry |first=Bridget
|author-link=Bridget Cherry
|title=The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: a short history and bibliography
|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/49844885
|year=1998
|publisher=Penguin Collectors' Society
|location=London
|isbn=978-0-952-74011-7
}}
* {{cite book
|editor1=Bridget Cherry|editor2=Simon Bradley
|title=The Buildings of England: A Celebration
|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/59488178
|year=2001
|publisher=Penguin Collectors' Society
|location=London
|isbn=978-0-952-74013-1
|ref={{sfnRef|Cherry|Bradley|2001}}
}}
* {{cite book
|editor1=Susie Harries |editor2=James Mackay
|title=The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: A Sixtieth Anniversary Catalogue
|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/830410251
|year=2012
|publisher=Penguin Collectors' Society
|location=London
|isbn=978-0-955-83955-9
|ref={{sfnRef|Harries|Mackay|2012}}
}}

==External links==
*[http://yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner-series-history/ Pevsner Architectural Guides], Yale University Press
*[http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/index.html Looking at Buildings website]

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