Evesham

“Art and Grace are less and less: Science grows and Beauty dwindles”—E. H. New opens with a lament for modern roofs, then points to Evesham, where old houses still speak in timber, blue lias and silver-grey stone.

In New’s portrait of Evesham, a town on a loop of the River Avon and sheltered by the hills of the vale, every building carries traces of its makers and the materials beneath their feet. But new streets are spreading around the old centre, their uniform houses seeming to erase the local character that centuries of craft have left behind. With affection and urgency, New asks us to look closely at the town’s roofs, walls and churches—and to guard this heritage for those who come after. What can Evesham’s buildings tell us that no history book can?

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