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Essays in English architectural history / Howard Colvin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven, Ct. : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1999Description: viii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300070349
  • 9780300070347
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.942
LOC classification:
  • NA961. C6 1999
Contents:
Royal gardens in medieval England -- Was there a 'court style' in medieval English architecture? -- Church building in Devon in the sixteenth century -- Recycling the monasteries: demolition and reuse by the Tudor government, 1536-47 -- Pompous entries and English architecture -- Herms, terms and Caryatids in English architecture -- The south front of Wilton House -- Thorpe Hall and its architect -- Chesterton House, Warwickshire -- Robert Hooke and Ramsbury Manor -- The rebuilding of the Church of St Mary Aldermary after the great fire of London -- John Aubrey's Chronologia architectonica -- Gothic survival and Gothic revival -- The grand bridge in Blenheim Park (with Alistair Rowan) -- Lord Burlington and the office of works -- Architect and client in Georgian England -- Lease or demolish? The problem of the redundant country house in Georgian England -- Writing A biographical dictionary of British architects -- The author's principal writings on architectural history.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 303) and index.

Royal gardens in medieval England -- Was there a 'court style' in medieval English architecture? -- Church building in Devon in the sixteenth century -- Recycling the monasteries: demolition and reuse by the Tudor government, 1536-47 -- Pompous entries and English architecture -- Herms, terms and Caryatids in English architecture -- The south front of Wilton House -- Thorpe Hall and its architect -- Chesterton House, Warwickshire -- Robert Hooke and Ramsbury Manor -- The rebuilding of the Church of St Mary Aldermary after the great fire of London -- John Aubrey's Chronologia architectonica -- Gothic survival and Gothic revival -- The grand bridge in Blenheim Park (with Alistair Rowan) -- Lord Burlington and the office of works -- Architect and client in Georgian England -- Lease or demolish? The problem of the redundant country house in Georgian England -- Writing A biographical dictionary of British architects -- The author's principal writings on architectural history.

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