* Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner.

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 ".

* 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian ( d. 1983 )

" Villard de Honnecourt ", essay, pp. 61 – 69, in Pevsner on Art and Architecture, by Nikolaus Pevsner, ed.

The art historian Nikolaus Pevsner has said that exhibits in the Great Exhibition showed " ignorance of that basic need in creating patterns, the integrity of the surface " and " vulgarity in detail ".

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 ".

Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in the 1960s, referred to Gaudi's buildings as growing " like sugar loaves and anthills " and describes the ornamenting of buildings with shards of broken pottery as possibly " bad taste " but handled with vitality and " ruthless audacity ".

Nikolaus Pevsner ( writing in 1950 ) is uncertain about the dating and suggests that the Norman work has some Saxon features, while the tower may be 13th or 15th century in date.

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 ".

Its massive crossing tower was rated " probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England " by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.

His plans were partially completed by his son, John Oldrid Scott, but the remaining work fell into the hands of Lord Grimthorpe, whose efforts have attracted much controversy — Nikolaus Pevsner calling him a " pompous, righteous bully.

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.

Throughout all these changes, the core of Stoke Newington, centred around Church Street, has retained its own distinct ' London village ' character ; indeed, Nikolaus Pevsner confessed that he found it hard to see the district as being in London at all.

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 '.

Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as " neither one thing nor the other ".

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 '.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus ( 1951 ) An Outline of European Architecture 2nd Edition.

" However the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner states that Burges's remodelling was carried out " with all the robust ugliness which that architect liked ".

William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner, Lincoln College preserves " more of the character of a 15th century college than any other in Oxford ".

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.

" In the twentieth century, Nikolaus Pevsner would agree, but the mention of the architect-earl Burlington, arbiter of architectural taste, boded ill for the provincial surveyor-builder, Tunnicliffe.

Pevsner invited him to study the history of modern architecture, following his own work Pioneers of the Modern Movement ( 1936 ).

Even enthusiastic advocates of the Modern Movement such as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner have found the Béton brut concrete both inside and out overbearing.

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 ".

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.

Following historical surveys such as Creative Art In England by William Johnstone ( 1936 and 1950 ), Nikolaus Pevsner attempted a definition in his 1956 book The Englishness of English Art, as did Sir Roy Strong in his 2000 book The Spirit of Britain: A narrative history of the arts, and Peter Ackroyd in his 2002 book The Origins of the English Imagination.

It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, " the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London ", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes.

Unlike in France and Germany, the English adoption of the Rococo style was patchy rather than whole-hearted, and there was resistance to it on nationalist grounds, led by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent, who promoted styles in interior design and furniture to match the Palladianism of the architecture they produced together, also beginning the influential British tradition of the landscape garden, according to Nikolaus Pevsner " the most influential of all English innovations in art ".

Of the 15 windows, 14 were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, with some input from William Morris, and were made by Morris & Co. Pollard and Pevsner consider that the west and east windows are the best.

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.

* Hartwell, Clare, Hyde, Matthew and Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South East ( 2004 ) Yale University Press

* Loyd, T., Orbach, J., Scourfield, R., The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-300-10178-3

* Newman, J and Pevsner, N. Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Shropshire, Yale University Press ( 2006 ).

* Michael Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Yale University Press, 2003.

The series continued after Pevsner's death in 1983, financed in part by the Pevsner Books Trust and published by Yale University Press.

* Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Devon ( 1989 ) Yale University Press

Nikolaus Pevsner first proposed a series of volumes amounting to a county by county survey of the monuments of England in ten or more books to both the Cambridge University Press and Routledge before the war, however for various reason his plan came to nothing.

King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late Gothic ( Perpendicular ) English architecture, while its early Renaissance rood screen separating the nave and chancel, erected in 1532-36 in a striking contrast of style, has been called by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, " the most exquisite piece of Italian decoration surviving in England ".

* Pevsner Architectural Guides-Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5

* Pevsner Architectural Guides-Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5

* Pevsner Architectural Guides-Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5

* Pevsner Architectural Guides-Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5

* Pevsner Architectural Guides-Birmingham, Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5