John Carr (“of York”, as he called himself and is still called) was born in 1723, 300 years ago, and as an architect left spectacular buildings such as the Crescent built in the 1780s in the spa town of Buxton. Its curve was deliberately made as enjoyable from the rear as at the front. Behind it are the vast colonnaded stables, built for 110 horses, and later covered by a huge dome.
Outside London, few British towns can match Oxford for the richness of its architecture: Cambridge perhaps, though it pains this Cambridge man to admit Oxford might just have the edge. Its treasures are described in the revised Pevsner architectural guide The Buildings of England – Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (Yale, £45).
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