A lack of reverence makes this revised Pevsner one of the best in the series，writes Robert Harbison

摘要

Worcestershire is one of the very best of the revised Pevsner Architectural Guides. The infectious enthusiasm of author Alan Brooks frequently breaks through, although he doesn't depart dramatically from the tone of the series. Brooks has the temerity (not shared by all revisers) to rethink even Nikolaus Pevsner's descriptions of medieval churches, one of the sacrosanct elements of the guides.