Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

In 1861, the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co .( later described by Nicholas Pevsner as the ' beginning of a new era in Western art ') was founded with Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb as partners, together with Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, the former of whom was a member of the Oxford Brotherhood, and the latter a friend of Brown and Rossetti.

The oak wagon roof, made up of 350 panels of different designs, separated by 396 carved foliage bosses ( supposedly every one different ) and with 36 carved angels along the sides, was described by British historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the finest 15th century carved oak wagon-roof in England ".

Of Deptford's two important houses, Sayes Court no longer exists, but the Stone House in St Johns, built around 1772 by the architect George Gibson the Younger, and described by Pevsner as " the one individual house of interest in this area ", still stands by Lewisham Way.

Early in the 20th century, The Viaduct received a new faïence façade which Nikolaus Pevsner succinctly described as " a jolly tiled Edwardian pub ".

Nikolaus Pevsner described it thus: " a peach of an early c19 Gothic thatched cottage with two pointed windows, a quatrefoil, and an ogee arched door, all on a minute scale.

It has a high tower and a famous Norman ( 12th century ) south doorway, stained blue, with seven orders and three shafts, described by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as ' barbaric and glorious '.

This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.

His style of decoration, described by Pevsner as " Classical Rococo ", drew on Roman " grotesque " stucco decoration.

It has been described as "... one of the most interesting in the county ", by Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian Edlingham itself is little more than a hamlet with a church alongside the castle.

It is described in Pevsner ’ s Buildings of York and East Riding.

Rugby was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ' Butterfieldtown ' due to the number of buildings designed by William Butterfield in the 19th century, including much of Rugby School and the extension of St Andrews church.

Outside of the historic town centre Pevsner described the late Victorian architecture as " Principal developments belong to the 1890s.

The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke designed its buildings, and Sherwood and Pevsner described them as " institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest ".

Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as " coarse in the extreme ".

It was described as " Redbrick Tudorish " by Nikolaus Pevsner.

Wyatt introduced his own version of French style to the interior, notably in the Waterloo Gallery and the florid wrought iron stair-rail, described by Pevsner as " just turning from Empire to a neo-Rococo ".

His memorial by the monumental mason Hopper in Holy Trinity Church ( Cambridge ), was described by architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner as an " epitaph in Gothic forms.

It was described by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as " free Neo-Tudor " and " extremely pretty " and by Andor Gomme as " one of the great masterpieces of the early Modern Movement ".

The Bank being his most famous work, Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Soane's earlier building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as “ lying large and low like a tired beast ”.

The architect was C Evans Vaughan, and it was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as a " nice irregular brick building with Tudor windows and lantern ".

Pevsner clearly failed to appreciate what the delighted Disraeli described as the " romance he had been many years realising " while going to say that he imagined it was now " restored to what it was before the civil war ".

Close by the church is the former rectory, a large house described by Pevsner as of vitreous red brick.

Pevsner described it as " the noblest monument in the Cinquecento style in England ", whilst Hartwell considered it " a classic which belongs in the canon of historic English architecture.

Nikolaus Pevsner refers to " the plastic shape of the temple ..... placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later building ".

The town hall rather divides opinion locally, between those determined that it has to be preserved and others who agree with Pevsner that the building is out of scale and character to the surrounding townscape.

The building is of significant architectural and historical interest being mentioned in Pevsner ’ s Buildings of England volume on Dorset.

The facade is of coursed and squared rubble masonry with panels of blue-green slate, and Nikolaus Pevsner commended the building as tactful and elegant.

On the other hand, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the noted architecture historian, considered the building, " Brutalist by tradition but not brutal to the landscape ... the elements, though bold, sensitively composed.

Nikolaus Pevsner in his The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire states: " as a testament of faith this building must be viewed with respect ".

Other notable buildings of the College include the Ibberson Building built in 1914 ( named after its architect, Herbert George Ibberson ) which is considered by many-including Nikolaus Pevsner in his Buildings of England-to be the College's most significant building ; a fact mirrored by its Grade Two listed status, the only listed building on the site.

The court building, designed by C. A. Legerton and opened in 1974, was functional and " of minimal personality and minimal expression of function and purpose ", according to Pevsner.

Nikolaus Pevsner, an architect and writer, disapproved of the building calling it " a very ugly church ".

In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones.

Pevsner describes the building as a long " Friars Hall ", running on an east to west axis with its upper floor previously the refectory.

Pollard and Pevsner consider this to be Foster's best surviving building.

The current building was built between 1912 and 1913, designed by J S Gibson, in what Pevsner termed an art nouveau gothic theme, and decorated with mediæval-looking gargoyles and other architectural sculptures by Henry Charles Fehr.

The building is regarded as one of Cockerell's most impressive and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as a " masterpiece of Victorian architecture ".

However, the building has been criticised in the past by authors such as Nikolaus Pevsner who criticised the lack of stone, and the use of industrial bricks in a religious building.

In the words of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, the building " is thoroughly unsubtle, but succeeds in holding its own in London's river front.

Nikolaus Pevsner proposes that St Augustine's tower is older than the surrounding church towers, with a tower arch that may date to 1300 as part of a previous church building.

Grinshill stone is a Triassic sandstone that was described by the Pevsner Architectural Guides as the " pre-eminent " building stone of Shropshire, and has been used in buildings as varied as Haughmond Abbey, Shrewsbury railway station and Welsh Bridge.