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John was born in London, the 4th child of Giles Vanbrugh, a cloth-merchant. He was raised in Chester after his family fled London in the wake of the Great Fire and Plague. His father later worked in the sugar trade, possibly owning a sugar import business, though this is unclear. What is clear, though, is that like Wren before him, Vanbrugh ...
Buildings and structures designed in whole or in part by the English architect John Vanbrugh. Pages in category "John Vanbrugh buildings" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Eastbury Park. Eastbury Park was a country estate near Tarrant Gunville in Dorset, England. It contained a large mansion designed by Sir John Vanbrugh. The mansion has not survived, but its former service wing has become a country house known as Eastbury House, a Grade I listed building .
1000324. Location of Claremont House and Estate in Surrey. Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England. The buildings are now occupied by Claremont Fan Court School, and its landscaped gardens are owned and managed by the National Trust.
1 de jun. de 1987 · This essay posits three basic sources for the vocabulary of Vanbrugh's mixed style: namely, (1) the interior architecture and scene design of the contemporary theatre, with which Vanbrugh became familiar in his capacity as dramatist and manager of the Queen's Theatre at the Haymarket; (2) the medieval forms of the walled city of Chester in which he spent his youth; and (3) the donjon and ...
59 ‘George Hickes’s Observations on John Vanbrugh’s Proposal about building the Fifty New Churches’ (MS Osborn, Hickes, 17.363, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, USA), as quoted in du Prey, Hawksmoor’s London Churches, pp. 139-42 (p. 139).
Castle Howard. / 54.12139°N 0.90583°W / 54.12139; -0.90583. Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Henderskelfe, located 15 miles (24 km) north of York. It is a private residence and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
