. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ils of Jonet. The fi)rmereill furnish us presently with a few remarks. During the time of the Commonwealth, theistory of architecture in this coinitry is a comjjlete blank. We know of no pul)lic workf consequence that was designed or executed in the interregnum. On the restoration of HISTORY OF AKCinTECTURE. Boox I. the monarchy, liovvever, the art began to revive ; but it was much tinctured witli thecontemporary French style, which Lord Burlington,
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ils of Jonet. The fi)rmereill furnish us presently with a few remarks. During the time of the Commonwealth, theistory of architecture in this coinitry is a comjjlete blank. We know of no pul)lic workf consequence that was designed or executed in the interregnum. On the restoration of HISTORY OF AKCinTECTURE. Boox I. the monarchy, liovvever, the art began to revive ; but it was much tinctured witli thecontemporary French style, which Lord Burlington, on its reappearance many years after-wards, tiie merit of reforming, and of bringing back the public taste to the ))urityuhicli Jones had introduced : but tliis we shall iiave to notice hereafter. 465. John Welih was nephew as well as scholar of Inigo Jones, wliose onlv married. He built a large seat for the Bromley family at Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire ;and added a portico to the Vine, in Hampshire, for Challouer Chute, the S])eaker toRichard Cromwells parliament. Ambresbury, in Wiltshire {fig- ilO.), was only executed. Fig. 210. AUSBESBUIiY. (Before its alterations in 1853.) by him from the designs of his master, as also the east side of the court of GreenwichHospital. Captain William Winde, a native of Bergen-op-Zoom, and pupil to Sir BalthazaiGerbier, was, soon after the Restoration, in considerable employ as an architect. He bui 1Cliefden House, Bucks, which was destroyed by fire in 1795 ; the ])uke of Newcastles, iiLincolns Inn Fields; Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, for Lord Craven; and for the samepeer he finished Hempsted Marshall, which had been begun by his master. But the chieand best work of Winde was Buckingham House, in St. Jamess Park, on whose site nonstands a palace, larger, indeed, but unworthy to be its successor. It is known from printsand not a few of our readers will probably recollect the building itself It was erected foiJohn Sheffield,
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