ABC/246 - A Handbook of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500-1800

ABC/246

A Handbook of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500-1800

1 volume

A clear description of Renaissance Architecture in England between 1500-1800, including pictures, plans, sections and elevations, some to scale. The Table of Contents covers the following chapters: The Italians in England - Henry VIII - Edward VI; The Germans in England - Elizabeth - James I; The English Builders; Sixteen Century House Planning; Inigo Jones; John Webb, Marsh, and Gerbier: The Last Survivals of Gothic; Sir Christopher Wren; Wren's Contemporaries and Successors: Jarman, Wynne, Bell of Lynn, Talman, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor - Aldrich, Clarke, Burrough, Essex; The Eighteenth Century Architects: Archer, James, Campbell, Ripley, Lord Burlington, Leoni, Kent; Gibbs, Ware, Flitcroft, Vardy, The Woods of Bath, Dance the Elder; Paine, Morris, Taylor, Carr of York, Chambers, Gandon, Dance the Younger, Robert and James Adam; House Planning in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Trade: Carpentry, Masonry; Brickwork, Plaster Work, Lead, and Iron. Buildings included are: The Palace of Audley End; Oriel College, Oxford; St. John's Colege, Cambridge; Ashdown House, Berks; St. John's Church Leeds; Trinity Colege Chapel, Oxford; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Hampton Court; Houghton Hall, Norfolk; Moor Park, Hertfordshire; The Admirality; Holkham House, Norfolk; The Horse Guards; King's College, Cambridge; Radcliffe Library, Oxford; Spencer House; Prior Park, Bath; The Mansion House, London; Kedlestone Hall, Derby; Somerset House; The Custom House, Dublin; Clare College, Cambridge; Wotton House, Aylesbury; Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Ely Cathedral; The Five Orders of Palladio and the Method of Setting out the Entasis to the Shaft of a Column; St. John's College, Oxford; Chest on Choir Screen, Winchester; Salisbury Chantry, Christchurch, Hants; Door-head, Burgate Street, Canterbury; Doorway, Tenterden, Kent; Montacute House, Somerset; A Gable at Knowle; The Grange, Leominster; Carving, Butcher's Row, Hereford; School and Almshouse, Corsham; Gateway at Cobham College; Buckhurst House, Sussex; Audley End, Essex; Holland House; Fishing-house at Meare; Garden House in Amesbury; Thornton College; Wymbledon; Wollaton Hall; Wye College, Kent; Hawkhurst, Kent; Whitecross Street; Christ's College, Cambridge; Whitehall; Greenwich Hospital; Ceiling, Wilton, by Inigo Jones; Double Cube Room, Wilton; Entrance Pier at Amesbury; Doorway at the Vyne, near Basingstoke; The Stables, Thorpe Hall; The Chapel, Burford Priory, Oxfordshire; The Chapel, Lyte's-Cary, Somerset; The Chapel, Brasenose College, Oxford; Wren's plan for rebuilding London; St. Stephen's, Walbrook; St. Bride's Steeple, Fleet Street; St. Benet's, Upper Thames Street; Plan of St. Paul's; Chapel of Wolvesey Palace, Winchester; Groomsbridge Place, Kent; Custom House, King's Lynn; Plan of Blenheim Palace; Christ Church, Spitalfields; All Saints', Oxford; St. Philip's, Birmingham; Old Burlington House; St. Mary-Le-Strand; St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; Plan of Kedleston; Wardour House, Wilts; Plan of Luton House; Library at Kenwood House; Ashburnham House; Plan of Lindsey House; Eltham Club-House; Plan of Moor Park, Hertfordshire; Latham Hall; Dr. Heberden's House in Pall Mall; A Spur, Smarden, Kent; Weatherboarded House, Sissinghurst, Kent; Sparrow's House, Ipswich; Doorway at Burwash, Sussex; Walling at Amesbury, Wilts; Gatehouse, Sandwich; Stone Doorhead, Corsham; Abingdon Town Hall; St. George's, Great Yarmouth; Great Snoring Rectory, Norfolk; Choristers' School, Salisbury; House at Arundel; Stockton, Wilts; Star Inn, Great Yarmouth; Ashburnham House; His Majesty's Drawing-Room at Chiswick; Spandrel, Radcliffe Library, Oxford; Lead Cistern at the Vyne, Basingstoke; Rain-water head, Shrewbury; Lean Urn, Parham; Iron Standard, Burford Church; Casement Fastener, Guildford; Part of Gate, North Chancel Aisle, Beverley Minster; Shaw House, Newbury; Stone Urn on Gate Pier, Hampstead Marshall.

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