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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454176503321

Titolo

English architecture, public and private [[electronic resource] ] : essays for Kerry Downes / / edited by John Bold and Edward Chaney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio, : Hambledon Press, 1993

ISBN

1-282-02463-9

9786612024634

0-8264-2141-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DownesKerry

BoldJohn

ChaneyEdward

Disciplina

720/.942

Soggetti

Architecture - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Kerry Downes: A Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 The Role and Function of the Interior Double Staircase; 2 Northamptonshire Towers and Spires; 3 Architecture and Mathematical Practice in England, 1550-1650; 4 Inigo Jones in Naples; 5 The Architectural Patronage of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland; 6 Hugh May, Clarendon and Cornbury; 7 John Pollexfen's House in Walbrook; 8 Privacy and the Plan; 9 Sanmicheli through British Eyes

10 'Behold the Proud Stupendous Pile': Eighteenth-Century Reflections of St Paul's Cathedral11 Wren, Hawksmoor and the Architectural Model; 12 The Grand Bridge in Blenheim Park; 13 St Lawrence, West Woodhay: A Church by Vanbrugh?; 14 Sir William Strickland's Hunting Lodge at Malton; 15 The Building Practice of the English Board of Ordnance, 1680-1720; 16 Hawksmoor's Brave Designs for the Police; 17 The Payment Book of William Baker of Audlem (1705-71); 18 Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden: New Documents and Attributions

19 Sir James Thornhill's Portrait of Stephen Duck (1731)20 The Simeon



Monument in Reading by Sir John Soane; 21 Meyer or Myers? St Joseph's Catholic Church, Avon Dassett; 22 Conspicuous by their Absence: Town Halls in Nineteenth-Century London; 23 The MARS Group and the Thirties; 24 Cyril A. Farey: A Personal Tribute to St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London, 1940-44; Index; List of Subscribers

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.