Architecturally, Bristol is often compared unfavourably with Bath. In this scholarly but entertaining and provocative study, Tim Mowl shows that Bristol has not only more Georgian buildings than its neighbour, but a finer and wider range of styles and types.
Bristol and Clifton in particular, the author argues, are the unexplored, undervalued treasure houses of eighteenth-century design. Architects and craftsmen considered include the remarkable Paty family [see separate entry for The Paty Family], Charles Dyer, Richard Shackleton Pope, John Strahan and Charles Underwood.