John Arthur Newman (born December 1936) is an English architectural historian. He is the author of several of the

Pevsner Architectural Guides The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published b ...

and is the advisory editor to the series.

Career

Newman was born in 1936, and has lived most of his life in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. He was educated at

Dulwich College Dulwich College is a 2–19 independent, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose of ...

and

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where he read Greats (classics). In 1959 he became a classics teacher at

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. In 1963 he left his teaching post to study for a diploma in the history of European art at the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

, which he passed with distinction. In 1966 he was appointed a full-time assistant lecturer at the Courtauld, where he taught until his retirement.''abstract
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Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

, while Pevsner was undertaking work on ''The Buildings of England'' series, which has subsequently been expanded as the ''

'' to cover Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Pevsner suggested that Newman should research and write the architectural guides on Kent, which were published in 1969.

Bridget Cherry Bridget Cherry OBE, FSA, Hon. FRIBA (born 17 May 1941) is a British architectural historian who was series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides from 1971 until 2002, and is the author or co-author of several volumes in the series.

, the general editor of the series, and author of a history of the project, describes Newman as the most significant of Pevsner's collaborators, and Pevsner himself considered Newman's two volumes on

to be "the best of the whole series". Since 1983, Newman has acted as the advisory editor to the series. From 1975 to 1985 Newman was honorary editor of the journal ''

Architectural History The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelt ...

''. He has served on the executive committee of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In 1986 Newman chaired the Pevsner Memorial Trust, which undertook the restoration of the murals at the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Garton on the Wolds,

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in memory of Sir Nikolaus.

Publications

* ''

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'' : ''Dorset'' (1972) (with Nikolaus Pevsner) : ''Kent – West and the Weald'' (2012) : ''Kent – North East and East'' (2013) : ''Shropshire'' (2006) * ''

The Buildings of Wales The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published b ...

'' : ''Glamorgan'' (1995) : ''Gwent/Monmouthshire'' (2000)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Newman, John 1936 births Living people 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the University of Oxford Architecture critics British architectural historians British architecture writers English architecture writers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People educated at Dulwich College