British Breweries An Architectural History

by Pearson, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9781852851910
• ISBN10: 1852851910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

"" I have no pain now, mother dear, But, oh, I am so dry! Connect me to a brewery and leave me there to die." Breweries were large and striking buildings whose towering presence was often reinforced by their occupation of sites in the middle of towns. They were the flagships of a major industry and generators of some of the great business fortunes. Designing their breweries for architectural grandeur as well as for their function, brewers were well aware of the marketing value of their buildings and used them as advertisements. What is surprising is that so little attention has been paid to breweries, in contrast to other great industrial buildings such as mills and warehouses. Lavishly illustrated, "British Breweries covers the whole of their history, from the country house brewhouses of the eighteenth century to the great breweries of Georgian and Victorian England, and to widespread disappearance in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Lynn Pearson is a writer, researcher and photographer whose main interest is architectural history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Part One
Towers of Strength	1	(12)
Brewing and Building	13	(14)
A Magnificence Unspeakable	27	(14)
Function and Style	41	(20)
Breweries of the 1870s	61	(16)
The Rise of the Brewers' Architect	77	(24)
The Ornamental Brewery	101	(20)
Decline and Fall	121	(20)
The Brewery in the Twenty-First Century	141	(75)
Part Two
A Directory of Brewers' Architects, 1780--1939	150	(49)
Brewery Construction by Town, 1865--1906	199	(17)
Notes	216	(14)
Glossary	230	(7)
Bibliography	237	(10)
Index	247