The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project (Archaeological Report 16)

1999 1st Edition. Near fine large format softback  xviii 216pp 185 black and white figures, 12 colour plates, 3 appendices, bibliography, copious endnotes, and index. Glazed card covers.

This volume provides the comprehensive results of the Chester Rows Research Project, an intensive multi-disciplinary study into one of Britain’s most celebrated and enigmatic urban architectural systems. Incorporating documentary history, structural recording, excavation results, and extensive dendrochronological dating, the authors deconstruct the origins, construction phases, and evolution of Chester’s two-tier covered shopping galleries. The report traces the physical transition from Roman fortress masonry to 13th-century stone undercrofts, medieval open-hall timber frames, and post-medieval Georgian refrontings.