03678nam 2200613 a 450 991045417650332120200520144314.01-282-02463-997866120246340-8264-2141-5(CKB)1000000000722378(EBL)436258(OCoLC)808805560(SSID)ssj0000147619(PQKBManifestationID)11154130(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147619(PQKBWorkID)10016806(PQKB)10975198(MiAaPQ)EBC436258(Au-PeEL)EBL436258(CaPaEBR)ebr10285118(CaONFJC)MIL202463(OCoLC)893334036(EXLCZ)99100000000072237819930402d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish architecture, public and private[electronic resource] essays for Kerry Downes /edited by John Bold and Edward ChaneyLondon ;Rio Grande, Ohio Hambledon Press19931 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-85285-095-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Eyes10 '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 Attributions19 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 SubscribersThis 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.ArchitectureEnglandElectronic books.Architecture720/.942Downes Kerry36450Bold John949644Chaney Edward202479MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454176503321English architecture, public and private2146449UNINA