This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to most of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s report, filled with new information and specially commissioned photographs. The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as the significant architecture of the towns and the medieval parish churches for which the area is known. Oxfordshire is also a county with grand residences, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the last bloom of Lutyens at 1930s Middleton Park. The most magnificent, however, is Blenheim Palace, the baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664–1726).