Books on Medieval buildings and architecture?

[beefcake]

I'm after a few books on medieval architecture and obviously would like to see what LAF has to say. Basically I want something with a lot of illustrations. I'd prefer black and white drawings as I find them easier to see.
So far I've found this Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Suffolk and Norfolk: A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of their History and their Ancient Buildings (quite a long winded title) but can't actually see into the book. It seems to have a lot of illustrations but is quite costly $50 NZ
Any ideas from anyone else?
I'm wanting this for a future kickstarter project for my buildings.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Look it up on Amazon - it lets you view the contents and some of the pages.  Looks like it has a lot of illustrations.

[beefcake]

Thanks. A the first illustrations look promising. Hopefully there are some more close up details in future illustrations

[jacques]

Hello Beefcake,

One of the best book on this subject is https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/95743671/viollet-le-duc-encyclopedie-medievale-livre.html?xtatc=15000&rtg=02072aafb80637b2e4b8c2450046c79b ! Encyclopédie médiévale by Violet le Duc.

Jacques

[Komsomol]

The English Mediaeval House by Margaret Wood is pretty good and (at least over here in the UK) a very reasonable price (hardback from £1.10).

 I have a 1994 edition and it is very useful- 576pp. 117 figures- b/w plans, drawing of features and  buildings, interiors and exteriors.  There are 32 plates of engravings, most with several pictures on each - giving 54 b/w illustrations and 60 photographic plates, most pages conatining multiple photographs to give over 140 b/w photographs.

The photographs are mostly by the author and the book was first published in 1965, so the quality of photographic reproduction may not be quite as expected now, but it covers a lot of ground in detail.

[beefcake]

Thanks for those. I'll look for that one Komsomol, however, jacques, that one may be out of my price range

[poulppy]

In french : L'encyclopédie Médievale Par Viollet le Duc.

As it is a XIXth Century books, you can find it free.