ABC/139 - Later Renaissance architecture in England. A series of examples of domestic buildings erected subsequent to the Elizabethan period in 2 volumes. Vol.1. ed. by John Belcher and Mervyn E. Macartney.

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Later Renaissance architecture in England. A series of examples of domestic buildings erected subsequent to the Elizabethan period in 2 volumes. Vol.1. ed. by John Belcher and Mervyn E. Macartney.

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  • 1901 (Creation)

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(10 Jul 1841-8 Nov 1913)

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British architect
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30679

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(16 Sep 1853-28 Oct 1932)

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The first volume of an in-depth description of Later Renaissance Architecture in England. There are a series accompanying pictures, plans, sections, elevations, and details, some to scale, spread over the two volumes. Buildings included are: Abingdon Town Hall; Amesbury Abbey, Wilts; Hall of the Brewers' Company, Antwerp; Arbury Priory, Nuneaton; House on the Parade, Arundel; Ashdown, Berks; Balls Park, Hertford; The plan of the city, Ralph Allen's Town House and a Dovecot at Bath; Beckett Park, Berks; Belton House, Grantham; Blackheath, see Morden College; John Bastard's House and another, Town Hall in the Forum at Blandford; Blenheim, Oxfordshire; Pendell House, Bletchingly; Bowood, Wiltshire; Fish Inn, Broadway; Broome Park, Kent; Castle House, Buckingham; The Great House at Burford; House at Burwash; Clare College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse College, St. Catharine's Hall, Senate House, Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College Library and the University Library at Cambridge; Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Carlisle, see High Head Castle; House in West Street and Swan House at Chichester; Chimney-Pieces; Coleshill, Berks; Croxteth Hall, Liverpool; House in High Street and Shop Front at Deal; Downton, Wilts; Drayton Park, Northants; Durham Castle; House at Eltham; House at Epsom; Farnham Castle; House at Farnham; Fenton House, Hampstead; Great Marlow Place, Bucks; Greenwich Hospital; Groombridge Place, Kent; House in High Street and Town Hall, Guildford; Hampton Court Palace; Ham House, Petersham; Bluecoat School, Herford; House at Highworth; High Head Castle, Carlisle; Honington Hall, Warwickshire; Houghton, Norfolk; Kensington Palace, and Alcove in the Gardens; Temple of Aeolus, Kew Gardens; Kew Palace; Custom House, King's Lynn; Shop at Lewes; Town Hall and House at Liverpool; London (Admiralty, Whitehall; Ashburnham House, Westminster; Banqueting Hall, Whitehall; Bluecoat School, Westminster; Boodle's Club, St. James's Street; Hall of the Brewers' Company; Earl of Burlington Villa, Chiswick; Carey Street; Houses in Cavendish Square; Chapel at Chelsea Hospital; Christ's Hospital; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Clapton; Ely House, Dover Street; Fenton House, Hampstead; House in Great Queen Street; Grosvenor Road; The Home Office; Horse Guards, Whitehall; Kensington Gardens and Palace; Laurence Pountney Hill; Mark Lane; New River Water Company's Office; Skinners' Hall; Somerset House; House in South Audley Street; Trinity Almshouse, Deptford); Lower Lypiatt House, Gloucestershire; Melton Constable, Norfolk; Eagle House, Mitcham; Moresby Hall, Whitehaven; Morden College, Blackheath; Newbury; Country Hall, Northampton; Nottingham Castle; Nuneaton; Oxford (Ashmolean Museum; Lincoln College Chapel; Queen's College; Radcliffe Library and Observatory; St. Edmund's Hall; Trinity College Chapel); Petersham; Prior Park, Bath; House at Rainham, Essex; Ralph Allen's Hall, Norfolk; The Corn Exchange and the Guildhall, Rochester; Grammar School, Rye; Houses and Entrance Gate at Salisbury; Seaton Delaval, Northumberland; House at Speenhamland, Newbury; Houses at Stamford (Houses near St. George's Church; House in the Market Place; House in St. Mary's Place; House in High Street, St. Martin's; House on Barn Hill); Stoke Hall, Derbyshire; Soneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth; Pin Mill, Stroud; Swateley Hall, Uxbridge; Thorpe Hall, Petersborough; House at Trowbridge; Tyttenhanger, Herts; Uffington House, Stamford; Uxbridge; House at Upper Westwood; House in High Street, Wallingford; Town Hall, Warwick; Widcombe, Bath; Wilton House, Wilts; Wolvesey House and Great Hall, Winchester School; Lucas Asylum, Wokingham; Wrest, Bedfordshire.

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