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In 1741 the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) acquired from Thomas Watson-Wentworth, earl of Malton, a house dating from 1700 or earlier on what was then heath, a coach house and stable and another cottage, and himself obtained further grants of adjoining waste, including the lime walk illustrated by William Collins.
Hace 4 días · Architectural styles evolve and change to suit the requirements of each individual client. When in 1746 the Duke of Bedford decided to rebuild Woburn Abbey, he chose the fashionable Palladian style, and selected the architect Henry Flitcroft, a protégé of Burlington.
Hace 4 días · A letter written in 1744 by Robert Butcher, the Duke's steward, when Henry Flitcroft was the estate surveyor, to William Perritt or Perrott, a plasterer looking for work, refers to the Broad Court scheme.
Hace 14 horas · Footnotes. Nos. 9, 10 and 11 St. James's Square. Formerly St. Albans, later Ormonde, later Chandos House. Builder, Benjamin Timbrell; supervised at No. 10, and probably at Nos. 9 and 11, by Henry Flitcroft, 1736. No. 9, oriel window on east front added by Messrs. Hesketh and Stokes, 1906.
Hace 4 días · The present church is the third on the site since 1101 and was rebuilt most recently in 1731–1733 in Palladian style to designs by the architect Henry Flitcroft . History. 12th–16th Centuries, Hospital and chapel.
17 de may. de 2024 · Designed in the late 18th century by Palladian architect Henry Flitcroft, who also devised Alfred’s Tower at Stourhead and Fort Belverdere at Windsor, and commissioned by the Thomas Watson Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, it forms one in a series of decorative buildings erected to mark the end of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion ...
3 de may. de 2024 · Stourhead was created by English banker Henry Hoare ‘The Magnificent’ who, in the mid-18th century, worked closely with architect Henry Flitcroft to transform his family estate into a work of art inspired by his grand tours of Europe.
