* 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 )

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).

" 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 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.

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, writing under the pseudonym " Febronius ", the chief German literary exponent of Gallican ideas of national Catholic Churches, was himself induced ( not without scandal ) publicly to retract his positions ; but they were adopted in Austria nevertheless.

Preludes by northern German composers such as Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ) and Nikolaus Bruhns ( c. 1665 – 1697 ) combined sections of free improvised passages with parts in strict contrapuntal writing ( usually brief fugues ).

), Concerning Architecture: essays on architectural writers and writing presented to Nikolaus Pevsner.

Nikolaus Becker answered to these events by writing a poem called " Rheinlied ", in which he swore to defend the Rhine.

Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, writing to Johann Nikolaus Forkel in 1775, claimed his father loved and studied Böhm's music, and a correction in his note shows that his first thought was to say that Böhm was Johann Sebastian's teacher.

In the 1960s Sir Nikolaus Pevsner found St. James ' to be derelict.

The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner referred to this gateway as " the craziest Elizabethan frontispiece ".

Like the von Grabow Family, whose descendants include Pushkin, the von Blumenthals were originally a branch of the von Ammendorf Family, who inherited the estates of Blumenthal and Grabow from the only daughter and heiress of Nikolaus von Blumenthal, first referred to in a document of 1240.

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.

Nikolaus Pevsner considers the decline in the salt industry to have been the critical factor in preserving the town's historic buildings.

The lack of notable or historic buildings led Nikolaus Pevsner to omit the town entirely from the first edition of his Buildings of England account of Cornwall.

Nikolaus Pevsner, architectural historian, was fairly scathing about Retford and its lack of distinguished buildings.

The Cheltenham Synagogue is judged by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the architecturally " best " non-Anglican religious buildings in Britain.

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.

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the view looking towards the south-east of the square with its now listed buildings and river opening as " one of the most perfect village pictures that the area has to offer ".

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.

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner lists it as one of the ten most important buildings in England.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, The buildings of Cumberland and Westmorland ( the Buildings of England series ) ISBN 0140710. 33 7.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus ( 1967 ) The buildings of England-Cumberland and Westmorland.