Eight films on eight centuries of British Architecture
Written and narrated by Mark Girouard

The Victorians had the money to build with a zest that transformed Britain. Mark Girouard tells how the prosperous industrial and imperial nation celebrated its strength by building on a scale and with a range of styles and materials that matched the exuberance of the times. The film describes the social as well as the architectural consequences of that affluence at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire; Keble College, Oxford; Castell Coch, Cardiff; and the Reform Club in Pall Mall.

Perhaps the most interesting and oddest building of them all is Sir Gilbert Scott's masterpiece - the hotel at St Pancras Station.