Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House

1. Introduction
James Raven

Part I. Implications of Loss

2. Lost Aspects of the Country Estate
Jon Stobart

3. The Destruction of the Country House in Ireland, 1879–1973
Terence Dooley

4. Bowen’s Court as ‘an Aesthetic of Living’: A Lost Mansion’s Significance in the Imagining of the Irish Gentry
Ian d’Alton

Part II. Debates and Perceptions

5. The Loss of Country Houses and Estates through the Destruction and Obscuring of Identity
Barbara Wood

6. Better Off as Ruins? The Scottish Castle Restoration Debate
Michael Davis

7. The Demolished Mansions of Essex and the Marks Hall Estate: Reconstruction and the Heritage of Loss
James Raven

Nyckelord: History, Social History, Arts, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Architecture, general, Architectural History and Theory