How did a German refugee from Hitler, an internee and a jobbing journalist, become the Grand Old Man of English art history? The answer lies in Nikolaus Pevsner's extraordinary one-man survey of all the architecturally significant buildings in the country, county by county. Some counties were both more difficult for him to describe, and more enjoyable, because there was so much that he could include, of every period of architecture.  The very first line of your volume in the series  reads ‘The North Riding of Yorkshire is a wonderful county’. This lecture tries to do justice to what he wrote about it.