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The English Home from Charles I. to George IV

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS AND TEXT

Reading edition

Note.—The ordinary figures denote references to pages of text; the illustrations, which are referred to by their figure numbers, are denoted by the heavier type.

Acton, iron gate at, 269

Adam, the brothers, 19, 21, 280, 381, 387

Adam, Robert, 280–85, 387–389

„design for chimney-piece, 305

„illustrations of his work, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319

Addison, 3

Adelphi, The, 285

“Advice to Servants,” by Dean Swift, 115

Age of Romance, 23

Albemarle, Duke of, 180

„House, 180, 118

Allen, Ralph, 263–66

All Souls, Oxford, 143, 154, 176

„drawings by Wren at, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103

Amelia, Princess, 231

Anne, Queen, 2

„the mansion of her time, 5

“Arching galleries”, 171

Architect; the term seldom occurs prior to the seventeenth century, 25

Architectural design, change in, 25

Artari, 255

“Art of Dialling”, 319

Art, utilitarian, 391

Artificiality in architecture, 3

Arundel, Earl of, 2, 42, 52

„House, 21

Ashburnham House, Westminster, the staircase, 118, 73, 74

Ashburnham, William, 118

Ashdown House, Berkshire, 97, 55

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, staircase, 351, 277

Aske’s Hospital, Hoxton, 180

Aston Hall, Warwickshire, 7, 8, 42, 2

Astwell, Northamptonshire, gateway, 102, 59

Aubrey, John, 63, 64, 65

Austen, Jane, 311

Avenues at Boughton, 200

Banqueting House, Whitehall, 6, 42, 43, 50, 52, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 73, 99, 162, 22

„ „Inigo Jones’s drawings for, 66, 36, 37

„ „Smithson’s drawing, 66, 38

„ „Doorway, drawing by Jones, 86

„ „Window, drawing by Jones, 88

Bakewell, Robert (smith), 342

Barrow Gurney, Somerset, gateway, 329, 249

Barry, Charles, 172

Basil, Simon, 46

Bath, Somerset, Milsom Street, 303, 211

„Pulteney Bridge, 267, 184

„Queen’s Square, Panels in house, 363, 289

„Ralph Allen’s house, 302, 214

„Royal Crescent, 268, 185

Battle Abbey, Sussex, jamb of fireplace, 298

Beaufort House, Chelsea, 324

Beckford, Alderman, 14

„the younger, 17

Beckley, Sussex, Church House, 292, 202

Bedford Square, London—

houses in, 307, 221

chimney-piece, 318

Belcombe, chimney-piece, 317

Belton House, near Grantham, 157–160

„plan, 105

„chapel, 96

„house, 104

„iron screen, 106

„carving, 107

Bethlem Hospital, London, 180, 116

Bignor, Sussex, chimney, 229

Birmingham, lead rain-water head, 272

Bishopsgate Street Without, London, ceiling, 386, 307

Blaythwayt, William, 203

Blenheim Palace, 5, 152, 223, 224, 227, 155

Blomfield, R., 216 (footnote)

Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, 32, 33, 13, 16

Bond, Sir Thomas, 180

Books on Architecture, 2, 25–28, 212, 372

„German, Dutch, and French, 28

Botolph Lane, London, house in, 185, 119, 120

Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 178, 196–203

„plan, 132

„house, 133, 134

„state room, 135

„bird’s-eye view, 136

„staircase, 352, 276

„panelling, 363, 286

„fireplace, 369, 294

„painted ceilings, 385, 310, 311

Bourdon House, London, doorway, 357, 284

Bramham Park, Yorkshire, gardens, 232–236, 162, 163

Brasenose College, Oxford, 106, 63, 64

„doorway, 127, 84

Brettingham, Matthew, 276–278

Brewers’ Hall, London, 190, 125, 126

Bridge at Prior Park, 154

„at Bath, 184

Bridport, Viscount, 387

Bristol, houses at, 307, 220

British Museum, drawings at, 64, 19

Broadfield Hall, Hertfordshire, 9, 3

Brownlow, Sir John, 157

Buckingham (Villiers), Duke of, 60, 161

„(Sheffield), Duke of, 168

„House, London, 168, 171, 172, 113, 113A

„ „staircase and ceiling, 308

„Street, Strand, doorway, 258

Bulwick, Northamptonshire, date-stone, 235

Burford, 43

„Priory, 106, 62

Burghley House, 385

„Lord, 1, 212

Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, 176, 329, 245

Burlington-Devonshire, drawings, 52, 64, 65 (footnote), 83 (footnote), 42, 43, 44, 45, 76, 77, 86–88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 240, 241

Burlington House, 216

„Lord, 2, 63, 64, 214–216, 271

Burney, Frances, 3

Butleigh, Somerset, 84, 142

Byron, Lord, 21, 32

Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepysian Library, 100, 56

„St John’s College, gate-piers, 325, 243

„Trinity Hall, cupola, 318, 233

Campbell, Colin, 31, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 79, 80, 168, 171, 172, 176, 207, 240, 251–255

Campion, Thomas, 78

Can Court, Wiltshire, staircase, 122, 78

Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire—

Gate-piers, 322, 238

Gates, 239

Ceiling, 312

Canterbury, streets, 296

“Capability” Brown, 236

Carey Street, London, chimney-piece, 303

Cariat (Coryat), Thomas, 44

Carlisle, Earl of, 216

Carr, of York, 271

Caryatides, 73

Castle Combe, Wiltshire, doorway, 333, 252

Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 216–223, 149, 150, 151, 152

„Mausoleum, 220, 153

Castor, Northamptonshire, gate-piers, 329, 247

Catherine Court, Tower Hill, London, 117

Ceilings—

Seventeenth-century, 122, 31, 34, 54, 74–77, 112, 120

Eighteenth-century, 381, 144, 174, 180, 283, 288, 306, 307, 312–314

Painted, 384, 293, 308–311

Chambers, Sir William, 274

Changes in house design, 99, 115, 117

Chapman, George, 78

Charles I., 7, 41, 66, 70, 87, 163

„his influence on architecture, 41

Charles II., 10, 84, 141

„his idea of rebuilding Whitehall Palace, 70

„his interest in building, 142

Charleton, Dr., 50 (footnote), 52

Chatham, Lord, 231

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 204, 217, 140

„ „drawings at, 64, 66, 36, 37, 40, 41

Chelmsford, street, 296, 210

Cheltenham, shop at, 304, 217

Cheron, 198, 384

Chesterfield, Lord, 214

Chimneys, 314, 229, 230

Chimney-pieces—

Seventeenth-century, 138

By Inigo Jones, 138, 91, 92

By John Webb, 93, 94

In the Jerusalem Chamber, 90

At Forde Abbey, 95

Eighteenth-century, 377, 170, 292, 294, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305

Chinese wall-papers, 364, 290

Chipping Campden, The Martins, 339, 261

Chirurgeons’ Theatre, London, 50, 52

Chiswick, Lord Burlington’s Villa, 214, 148

“Chorea Gigantum”, 50 (footnote)

Christ Church, Oxford, 45

„Tom Tower, 145

Christian IV. of Denmark, 45

Church Langton, Leicestershire, rectory, 294, 207

Cirencester, shop at, 304, 216

City churches, 13

Civil War, The, 2, 10

Clarendon, Earl of, 180

Clarke, Dr., of All Souls, Oxford, 63, 64

Cliefden House, Buckinghamshire, 168, 172, 114

Coke, Rev. D’Ewes, 32

Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 274

Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, killed in a duel, 276

Coleshill, Berkshire, 54–58, 88

„plan, 28

„elevation, 29

„staircase, 30

„ceiling, 31

„gate-piers, 324, 242

College Hill, London, house in, 185, 121

Combe Abbey, 171

Comfort in houses, 5

Coniers, Sir John, 227

Cooke, “My ladye Cooke’s House”, 36, 18

Coryat, Thomas, 44

Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, 178

„ceiling, 386, 313

“Counsel and Advice to all Builders,” by Gerbier, 161

Covent Garden Piazza, 50, 24

„St Paul’s Church, 48, 52, 23

Cowper, 3

Craftsmen, English, are skilful, 389

Crane, Sir Francis, 176, 367

Craven, William Lord, 164

Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, garden house, 236, 161

Cunningham, Peter, his “Life of Inigo Jones”, 45 (footnote), 50 (footnote), 60 (footnote)

Cupolas, 316, 5, 29, 51, 55, 104, 106, 118, 231–234

Dacres, Lord, 216

Dance, George, 307

Daniell, Samuel, 78

Date-stones, 318, 235, 236

D’Avenant, 87

Davies, Robert (smith), 345 (footnote)

Dawtrey Mansion, Petworth, Sussex, staircase, 124, 79

Deanery at Wells, panelling, 193, 128

„ „chimney-piece, 379, 302

Dean Street, Soho, London, house in, 251, 171

Decline of fancy in design, 313

Deene, Northamptonshire, the “Seahorse”, 291, 205

De L’Orme, 28, 73

Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, staircase, 355, 280

„panelling, 359, 287

Denham, Sir John, 69, 70, 84, 87, 141, 144, 212

Denmark House, chapel at, 50

Design follows two paths, 99, 391

Designs of Inigo Jones. See under Jones, Inigo.

Devonshire, Dukes of, 64, 204

Doorways, seventeenth-century, 126

„exterior, 13, 21, 35, 58, 59, 84

„interior, 48, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 124, 126, 129, 130

„eighteenth-century—exterior, 333–339, 196, 197, 252–259

„interior, 282–285

Dorking, shop at, 305, 219

Double cube rooms, 58

Drayton, Leicestershire, date-stone, 235

Drayton House, Northamptonshire, chimney-piece, 97, 138, 94

„gardens, 236, 159, 160

Dryden, 60

Du Cerceau, 28

Dunkirk House, 180

Dunstable, street, 296

Durham House, 97, 115

Dyrham, Gloucestershire, 203, 204, 373

„plan, 138

„house, 137

„dining-room, 139

Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 178, 207–210

„plan, 142

„house, 141

„interiors, 143, 144

Edney, William (smith), 342

Elizabethan houses, 1, 5, 56

„ „still habitable, 3

Ely, Cambridgeshire, house at, 294, 206

Emmett, William, of Bromley, 64, 65, 66

Entrances to houses, 319

Erectheus, Temple of, 311

Evelyn, John, 2, 70, 142, 180

„quoted, 27, 167 (footnote)

Extinguishers near doors, 333

Ferguson, 274

Fielding’s “Tom Jones”, 266

Finsbury Circus, London, house in, 311, 225

Finsbury Square, London, houses in, 307, 222

Fire-backs, 370, 296

„basket, 370, 297

„dogs, 370, 295, 296

„grates, 299, 300

„places, 369, 375

„jamb of, 298

Fitzwilliam, Earl of, 258, 260

Flaxman, design for a chimney-piece, 304

Flitcroft, Henry, 258–260

“Florimene,” a pastoral, 87

Fonthill Abbey, sale at, 17

„House, Wiltshire, 14, 17, 9

Ford Abbey, Dorset, chimney-piece, 138, 95

Fournier Street, London, doorways, 257

Frogley, R. (carpenter), 145

Furniture of houses in 1720, 375

Gables, 99

Gammon, Richard, 60

Ganymede, 19

Gardens, 229–236, 108, 136, 156–162

„at Boughton, 200

Garrick, 3

Gates and gateways, 322–331, 21, 35, 46, 50, 59, 110, 111, 238, 239, 241–251

Georgian Houses, 237

„accommodation in the smaller, 287

Gerbier, Sir Balthazar, 60, 161–163, 168

Gibbs, James, 31, 178, 243–251

„drawings by, 164–170

Girdlers’ Hall, London, 191, 127

Gloucester, house in Eastgate, 307

„ „Southgate, 109, 65

Godmersham Park, Kent, doorway, 356, 282

Goodridge, H. E., of Bath, 265

Gothic revival, 20, 23

Grainger, of Newcastle, 282

Grecian temples in English gardens, 311

Greek influence, 21

Greenwich Hospital (formerly Palace), 150, 98

Greenwich Palace—

King Charles’s Block, 52, 64, 65, 83, 168, 45

Ceiling, 77

Door, 87

Queen’s house at Greenwich, 43, 50, 52

Plan, 25

View, 26

Elevation, 27

Chimney-pieces by Inigo Jones, 91, 92

Greenwich Old Palace, staircase, 126, 82, 83

Gresham College, London, 143

Grinling Gibbons, 160, 189, 207, 357, 381

Gwydyr House, Whitehall, 20, 11

Hagley, Worcestershire, 231

Hakewill, 91

Hall, the great, 6, 7

„of eighteenth-century houses, 351

Ham House, Surrey, staircase, 126, 80

Hampton Court, 13, 70, 150, 154, 6

„gate-pier, 244

„iron screen, 262

„iron balustrade, 264

„fire-dogs, 295

„staircase and ceiling, 309

Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire, 163–168, 324, 108, 112

Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich, 13, 5

Harewood House, doorway, 316

Harley Street, London, 386

Hatton, 1

Hawes, Francis, his inventory, 372, 375

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 207–212, 220

Hengrave Hall, 275

Henry, Prince of Orange, 164

„ „Wales, 45, 46

Hercules, 19

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, sundial, 318, 234

Hinderskelf, Castle of, 216

Hogarth, 251

Holdenby House, 167

Holkham, Norfolk, 178, 271–275

„ „plan, 188

„ „view, 189

Holt, near Bradford-on-Avon, 291, 201

Homes, English, 1

Homes of great nobles, 2

Honington Hall, Warwickshire, doorway and ceiling, 357, 283

Hooke, Robert, 178

Horse Guards, The, Whitehall, 276, 190

Houghton, Norfolk, 178, 251–256, 351

„ „plan, 172

„ „views, 173–178

Houses in towns, 299–313

Hyde, Lord Chancellor, 180

Ince Blundell, Lancashire, The Lion Lodge, 329, 246

Inigo Jones. See Jones, Inigo.

Inventory of house furniture in 1720, 372

Ipswich, houses at, 111, 66

Ironwork, 299, 339–345, 212, 213, 262–266, 268–271

Isham, Sir Justinian, 93, 95

Italian influence and inspiration, 1, 2, 6, 27, 36

Jackson, John, 109

James I., 3, 45, 66

Jeffreys, Judge, 13

Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, chimney-piece, 136, 90

Johnson, Dr., on Kedleston Hall, 278

Jones, Inigo, 2, 6, 7, 13, 20, 31, 33, 40, 41–61, 64, 82, 83, 84, 99, 117, 118, 122, 126, 129, 132, 136, 138, 142, 143, 146, 161, 162, 176

Jones, Inigo—

his designs for masques, 39, 45

employed to purchase pictures, 42

his birth, 44

visits to Italy, 45, 46

his sketch-book at Chatsworth, 45, 46

his annotated copy of Palladio, 45

work attributed to him, 46–50

“the Vitruvius of his age”, 52

his death and will, 60

Kent’s “Designs of Inigo Jones”, 56, 63, 64, 68, 80, 82, 87, 153, 212, 216, 237–240, 243, 260, 278, 377

“Designs of Inigo Jones,” compared with earlier designs, 82

designs for scenery, 64

drawings attributed to him, 65

Jones and the designs for the Palace at Whitehall, 63–80

“Designs for Whitehall”, 68

drawings by him, 77 (footnote), 79

Jones as scene-painter, 79

as surveyor, 79

drawings by Jones—

Banqueting House, 36, 37

elevations of a house, 42

drawing for a masque, 43

ceiling at Wilton, 75

door at the Banqueting House, 86

window at the same, 88

chimney-pieces, 91, 92

clock turret at Whitehall, 232

Temple Bar, 240

gateway, 241

plan of Stoke Bruerne, 115

Jonson, Ben, 78, 79

Kedleston, Derbyshire, 178, 271, 278–280

„ „plan, 191

„ „Hall, 192

„ „furniture at, 280

„ „drawing-room, 389, 319

Keith, Admiral Lord, 387

Keith, W. Grant, 77 (footnote), 87 (footnote)

Kelmarsh Hall, 178

Kennington Common, 311

Kennington Park Road, London, houses in, 311, 226, 227

Kent, William, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 138, 229, 255, 256, 271–278

Kew Palace, fire-grates, 299, 300

Kimbolton Castle, 224, 227

King’s Lynn, 296, 209

Kingston, Castle Inn, staircase, 125, 81

King’s Weston, Somerset, 13, 14, 7

„ „staircase, 352, 275

Kip or Kyp, “Britannia Illustrata”, 164, 236

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, chimney and dormer window, 230

Laguerre, 384, 385

Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, 93, 52

Landor, Walter Savage, 301

Langley, B. and T., 26 (footnote)

Lanscroon, 384

Laud, Archbishop, 127

Lead cisterns, 267, 274

Lead work, 345, 349, 267, 274

Lectures on Architecture in the Seventeenth Century, 163

Leicester, Earl of, 274, 275

Leicester, Lady, 275

Lempster, William, Lord, 207

Le Nôtre, 216

Lenthall, Speaker, 106

Leoni, 229

Leyton Great House, Essex, 185, 122

Lewes, Sussex, house in the High Street, 314, 228

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, staircase at No. 35, 356, 281

Lisle, Dame Alice, 13

London Houses, 181, 307–311

„plan, 223

London suburbs, 313

Louvre, The, 74

Lysicrates, Choragic Monument of, 311

Magdalene College, Cambridge, 100, 56

Malton, Earl of, 258

Mansfield Street, London, staircase, 315

Market Harborough, Sign of Inn at, 212

Mark Lane, London, doorway, 333, 254

Marlborough, Duchess of, 150

„town, 296

Masques, 45 (footnote), 78

„drawing by Inigo Jones, 77, 43

Mediæval houses, plan of, 115

„traditions, decline of, 20

Melbourne, Derbyshire, gardens, 236

Melton Constable, Norfolk, 193, 131

„staircase, 354, 279

Meopham, Kent, chimney, 229

Middle Ages, vaulted rooms of the, 3

Milton, 10

Montagu, Duke of, 178, 196, 369

„House, 178

Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 216, 364

Mortlake, factory of tapestry, 367

Moulton, Northamptonshire, date-stone, 235

Movable scenery, design of the, first, 87 (footnote)

Moyles Court, Hampshire, 10, 4

Names of rooms on plans by, Thorpe and Webb, 115

Napoleon, 21

Nash, Beau, 266

Neville Holt, Leicestershire, The Stables, 316, 231

Newcastle House, 168, 171

Newcastle, Earls and Dukes of, 32

Newmarket, royal house at, 50

Nixon, Alderman John, 111

„his grammar school, at Oxford, 111, 67

Normanton Park, Rutland, 17, 10

Northampton, ceiling in Courts, of Justice, 381, 306

Northleach, 43

Northumberland House, chimney-piece, 97

Norwich, doorways, 256

Oliver, Mr., City Surveyor, 63, 64

Oundle, doorway, 333, 253

Ormond, Duke of, 180

Osborne, Dorothy, 95

Oxford, house in the High St., 291, 203

„house in St. Giles, 291, 200

(See also All Souls College, Ashmolean Museum, Brasenose College Chapel, Christ Church, Nixon’s Grammar School, Sheldonian Theatre, St. John’s College, Trinity College, Worcester College.)

Paine, James, 271, 278, 280

Palladio, 83

Panelling, 136, 360

Paul’s Cathedral, St., London, 13, 48, 63, 101, 142, 145–149

„ „model by Wren, 97

Paul’s, St., Covent Garden, 48, 52, 23

Penshurst, Kent, fire-basket, 297

Pepys, 2, 100, 180

Pepysian Library, Cambridge, 100, 56

“Persians”, 73

Petersham, Surrey, house at, 294, 208

Philibert de l’Orme, 28

Physicians’ College, 97

Piddletown, Dorset, vicarage, 291, 199

Pitt, William, 387

Pope, 5, 227, 243

Porches, open, 89

Powell, Sir Edward, 118

Powis Castle, Monmouth, tapestry room, 293

Powis House. See Newcastle House.

Powis, Marquis of, 171

Pratt, Roger, 180, and Appendix, 395–398

Price, Dr. George, chimney-piece for, 138, 93

Prior Park, Bath, bridge, 220, 154

„ „house, 260–266, 182, 183, 351

Proportion in architecture, 80

Puget, architect, 178

Pugin, 20, 311

Pulteney Bridge, Bath, 267, 184

Queen Anne, wife of James I., 45

Queen’s House at Greenwich. See Greenwich.

Quenby Hall, Leicestershire, iron gateway, 344, 266

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1

Ramsay, Allan, 387

Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire, 95, 53, 54

„Chinese wall-paper, 290

Raynham Park, Norfolk, 58

„ „plan, 32

„ „view, 33

Reddish Manor, Wiltshire, 268, 186

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 3, 14, 229

R.I.B.A. Collection of Drawings, 58–64, 42, 44, 45

Rice, R. Garraway, 342 (footnote)

Ricci, 172

Ripley, 14, 271

Roads in Georgian times, 299

Robinson, Thomas (smith), 342

Rockingham, Marquis of, 258

Rooms named on old plans, 115

Rubens, 60

Rundhurst, Sussex, gate-piers, 329, 248

Rysbrach, 255

Saffron Walden, Essex, houses, 111, 68, 69

Salisbury, sign of an inn, 213

„gateway in the Close, 250

„staircase, 352, 278

“Salmacida spolia”, 87

Sandby, Thomas, 7, 60, 74, Frontispiece, Fig. 1

Sanitary conveniences in Georgian houses, 288

Sappho, 21

Sash-windows introduced, 134

„earliest example, 136

Scole, Norfolk, inn, 111, 72

Scott (Sir Walter), 23

Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, 178, 224

Seckford Hall, Suffolk, doorway, 285

Sedgemoor, 13

Serlio, 80

Shakespeare, 10, 25

Shardiloes House, design for chimney-piece, 305

Shaw, Huntingdon (smith), 342

Sheffield, “my lord’s house”, 34

„Duke of Buckingham, 168

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 144

Sherborne, Gloucestershire, 43

Sherrard, Bennet, Lord, 191

Shops, 304, 305, 216, 219

Short survey of twenty-six counties in 1634, 43 (footnote)

Shrivenham, Berkshire, House, 294, 204

“Siege of Rhodes”, 87

Silchester, Hampshire, chimney, 229

Smithson, John, 7, 42, 168

„ „his family, 31

„ „his drawings, 32–40, 66, 77, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 38

„Robert, 31

„Huntingdon, 31

Snaresbrook, Elm Hall, iron gates, 268

Soane Museum, 31

Somerset House, 50

„new wing, 105, 61

South Molton, fireplace in Town Hall, 369, 292

South Sea Company, 372

Spalato in Dalmatia, 280

Speculative builders, their influence on house design, 311

Spiers, Walter L., 31 (footnote)

St Catherine’s Court, Somerset, 236

St Cloud, 200

St James’s Palace, 58

„ „chapel at, 50

„Square, No. 32, 20, 12

St. John’s College, Oxford—

doorway, 127, 85

panelling, 136, 89

rain-water heads, 345

St Lawrence Jewry, London, carving, 185, 123, 124

St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, iron gates, 342, 265

St John, Oliver, 88

Staircases of seventeenth century, 118, 73, 78–83

„eighteenth century, 351, 275–281, 308, 309

Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, farmhouse, 113, 71

Stanway House, Gloucestershire, doorway, 101, 58

Stapleford Park, Leicestershire, 191, 129, 130

Starkie Gardner, 345 (footnote)

Stationers’ Hall, London, 191

„ „doorway, 337, 259

Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, 176

Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, plan, 115

“Stone-Heng Restored”, 44, 50 (footnote)

Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire—

iron gateway, 342, 263

panelling, 363, 288

Stone, Nicholas, 60

Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, 224

Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, gardens, 229–232, 276, 157, 156

Strafford, Earl of, 258

Stratford, near London, iron gate, 271

Stratton Street, London, house, 310, 224

Streets in towns, 296

Stuart, James, 387

Sturmer, Essex, chimney, 229

Sundials, 318, 237

Sutton Place, fire-back and dogs, 296

Swakeleys, Middlesex, 102, 60

Talman, architect, 203, 204

Talmash, Thomas, 126

Tapestry, 367, 291, 293

Temple Bar, design for, by Inigo Jones, 323, 240

Temple, The, London, staircases, 351

Temple, Sir William, 95

Tenche, Sir Fisher, 185

Thornhill, Sir James, 385

Thorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, 88–91, 324

Thorpe Hall, Northamptonshire—

plan, 47

views and details, 46, 48–51

Thorpe, John, 28, 31, 77, 115

„plan of London houses, 310

Thrale, Mrs., 3

Tijou, Jean, 339, 340

Town houses of the gentry, 299

Town-planning on architectural lines, 267, 299, 301

Towns, growth of, 304

Townshend, Aurelian, 78

„George, 275

Trellis-work to fronts of houses, 311, 225–227

Trinity College, Oxford, 145

Triumphal arches by Gerbier, 162

Tuileries, plan for the palace, 73

Uffington, near Stamford, gate-pier, 251

Vandike, Sir Anthony, 52

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 13, 19, 20, 150, 216–229

Vathek, 17

Vernon, Thomas, 13

Verrio, 199, 384, 385

Versailles, 196

Vignola, 163

Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 60

“Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored,” by Webb, 45 (footnote), 48, 50 (footnote), 52 (footnote), 84

“Vitruvius Britannicus,” by Campbell, 64, 240–243

Wade, General, 214

Wall-papers, 364

„Chinese, 290

Walpole, Horace, 20, 31, 32, 161

„his visit to Stowe, 231

„Sir Robert, 251, 256

Wansford, Northamptonshire, chimney, 229

Wanstead, 260

Ware, Isaac, 176, 271

Wareham, Dorset, shop at, 305, 218

Warminster, Free School, 99, 57

Warwick, streets, 296

„Aylesford Hotel, 301, 215

„lead rain-water head, 273

Watson, Samuel, of Heanor, 207

Webb, John, 2, 7, 31, 45 (footnote), 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 60, 63, 64, 65, 68, 101, 141, 176

„commissioned to acquire works of art, 42

„his petition to Charles II., 69, 70

„brief attached to same, 84

„designed the Palace at Whitehall by command of Charles I., 70

„design for a house by him, 44

„his own work, 83–97

„“Inigo Jones’s man”, 83, 87

„designs for masques, 87

„drawings by him, for new wing, Somerset House, 61

„ceiling at Wilton, 76

„ceiling at Greenwich, 77

„door at Greenwich, 87

„chimney-pieces, 93, 94

„hall or public room, 145

Webb, William, 63, 64

Welbeck, 32

„riding-house, 33, 20

Wells, Deanery, 193, 128

„ chimney-piece, 379, 302

Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire, 258

„Woodhouse, Yorkshire, 256–260, 179, 181

Westminster, dormitory at, 216

Whitehall Palace, 7, 39, 42, 52, 154, 162, 168

„“Designs for Whitehall”, 64, 68

„drawings for, 65 (footnote)

„designs for the Palace, 63–80, 1, 19, 39–41

„by Wren, 103

„clockhouse by Inigo Jones, 232

Widcombe Manor House, near Bath, 268, 187

Wilkins, Dr., 143

William and Mary, 2

Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 136

Willis, Professor, 100

Wilton, Wiltshire, 58, 97, 220, 34

„ „ceilings, 118, 122, 75, 76

Wimpole Street, London, ceiling, 314

Winchester, chimney-piece, 301

„palace at, 142

Winde, Wine, or Wynne, Capt. See Wynne.

Windows of seventeenth century, 129

Windsor Castle, 385

„sash-window, 136

Witney, Oxfordshire, school at, 113, 70

Wollaton, 31

Wolterton Hall, Norfolk, 14, 8

Woodford Road, London, iron gate, 270

Wood, John, of Bath, 260–268

Worcester College, Oxford, drawings at, 52, 58, 63, 64, 65, 68

Workmen and books, 27

Working men’s dwellings, 389

Wren, Sir Christopher, 13, 20, 31, 61, 101, 108, 141–160, 176, 178, 189

„ „drawings at All Souls College, 145, 154, 176

„ „designs for houses, 99, 102

„ „for palace at Whitehall, 103

Wren, Dr. Christopher, 143

„Matthew, Bishop of Ely, 143

Wrest, Bedfordshire, gardens, 236, 158

Wynne, Captain, 163, 168

„ „drawings by, 171 (footnote), 109, 110, 112

Yarmouth, lay out of streets, 296

„porch at, 337, 260

York, streets in, 296

„Assembly Rooms, 214, 146, 147

„doorway, 333, 255

York House, London, 60, 161

„ „water-gate, 60, 322

„ „ Frontispiece, 35

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The publication of “Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions,” by B. and T. Langley, in 1742, does not invalidate this statemeNote 3 · See a communication from Mr. Walter L. Spiers to the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 10th Dec. 1908, where a short pedNote 1 · “A Relation of a Short Survey of 26 Counties observed in a seven weekes Journey begun on August 11, 1634, by a Captain, a Lieutenant, and anNote 5 · John Webb, in his “Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored” (1725), p. 119, says he resided “many years” in Italy, especially at Venice. This refNote 12 · Kennet, in Wood’s “Ath. Ox.,” by Bliss, iii. 806; quoted in Peter Cunningham’s “Inigo Jones.”Note 13 · In the year 1620, King James I., being at Wilton on one of his progresses, sent for Inigo Jones, and instructed him to produce out of his owNote 14 · Webb’s “Vindication,” p. 11. It would seem that Vandyke is here quoted as using the phrase “designing with his pen,” and not (as biographersNote 18 · “London Past and Present,” by Wheatley and Cunningham.Note 4 · Those who desire to pursue the subject more fully are referred to two papers by the author—“The Burlington-Devonshire Drawings,” in the JourNote 7 · In an article by Mr. W. Grant Keith, published in the Burlington Magazine of January 1913, are given some reproductions of half a dozen drawNote 12 · See the article on the Burlington-Devonshire Drawings in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Third Series, vol. xviii.Note 14 · “The Designs for the First Movable Scenery on the English Public Stage,” by William Grant Keith, in The Burlington Magazine, Nos. cxxxiii. aNote 4 · This conjecture is strengthened by a reference of Evelyn’s, who notes that in going from Reading to Marlborough in June 1654 he saw “my LordNote 6 · The curious volume of original drawings by Wynne, which is preserved at the Bodleian Library, and from which the illustrations 109, 110, andNote 6 · Mr. R. Blomfield’s “History of Renaissance Architecture in England,” p. 224.Note 4 · See two articles on Huntingdon Shaw by R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A., in the Archæological Journal, June 1895, and the Home Counties Magazine, JaNote 6 · This work is attributed by Mr. Starkie Gardner to a skilful smith named Robert Davies.
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