This document contains plans and descriptions of various architectural designs from the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England and France. It includes plans for Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey from 1509, Chateau de Madrid near Paris, Somerset House in London, Holland House in Kensington from 1607, and designs attributed to Inigo Jones and Nicholas Stone. Other plans listed are for houses in Hertfordshire, London, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Essex, Wiltshire, Paris and various aristocratic estates across England.
This document contains plans and descriptions of various architectural designs from the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England and France. It includes plans for Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey from 1509, Chateau de Madrid near Paris, Somerset House in London, Holland House in Kensington from 1607, and designs attributed to Inigo Jones and Nicholas Stone. Other plans listed are for houses in Hertfordshire, London, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Essex, Wiltshire, Paris and various aristocratic estates across England.
This document contains plans and descriptions of various architectural designs from the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England and France. It includes plans for Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey from 1509, Chateau de Madrid near Paris, Somerset House in London, Holland House in Kensington from 1607, and designs attributed to Inigo Jones and Nicholas Stone. Other plans listed are for houses in Hertfordshire, London, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Essex, Wiltshire, Paris and various aristocratic estates across England.
69. Plan of Henry VII. 's Chapel. " Capi'lla ista II. 7nii inipensis 14,000 lb. adiecit ijise Ao 150'J." 77, 78, Plan. Chateau tie Madrid. Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, now pulled down. S8, 89, Plan and elevation. Old Somerset House. 93. Plan. " Sr Walter Coap at Kensington, ptected p me J. T." Holland House, finished in 1607, and added to by Inigo Jones and N. Stone. 94. Plan. "St George Coj pin," Hertfordshire, cir. 1608 (?) 109. Plan. "A London house, I^a Darby, cl)annell row" (?) 105, 106. Plan. " Duke of Buckingham at BurghKy,"or Burley-on-the-Hill. (See 57.) 113,114. Plan. " W'ymbleton. An howse standing on the edge of an hie liill." Built, 1588,foi SirTho. Cecil. Fuller says it was "a daring structure, nearly ecjual to Nonesuch." 123, 124, 127, 128. Plans. " Queene niotlier's howse, fabor St. Jarmins, alia Paree, altered p Jo. Thorpe." 136. Plan. " I^ondon howse of 3 bredthes of ordy tenemts." Supposed design for Sir Fulke Greville's (Lord Brooke") house, near Gray's Inn. 139, 140. Plan. " Kerby whereof I layd ye first stone, Ao 1570," Northami)ton- shire, for I^ord Chancellor Hatton. 150. Plan. "Bichmt. Lodge, Sticles" (?). ( Robert Stickles ') 151. Plan. " Sr Pcival Hart," LuUingstone, Kint. Fig. '202. L(PMaii]a> CASTI.K. 155-158. Plan and elevation. " Longford Castle, Wiltshire (_fiff. 202). A diagram of the Ti inity is drawn in the middle of the triangular court. Built for Sir Thomas Gorges and his wife, the Marchioness Dowager of Northampton, in 1591 ; now the Earl of Radnor's. The plan differs from that given (1766) in Britton's ^4/cA. Antiq. Plan. ' Mounsier Janmiet in Paris, his howse, 1600. Plan. " Gyddye Hall, 84 fo. square," Essex. Altend for Sir Anthony Coke. 168. Plan. "St. Jarmin's howse, V leagues from I'aris, Ao 1600." 203, 204. Plan. " Audley end ;" and later, " Audley End in Esse.x, seat of Lord Suffolk." now the property of Lord Braybrooke. Thorpe's jiart was completed about 1616. 216. Three plans. Greek cross. Lyveden.co Northani. (?). Built by Sir T. Treshani. Two plans. " Mr. Tayler at Potter's barr, 1596." Plan, H shape, with a courtyard, " 94 fo. square," and a gatehouse. " This plot drawne after 8 fo. 8 inche, p Jo. Thorpe," (? his own drawing). Two elevations. " Heddington Jo Chenyes," (? Toddington, co Bedford). 239, 2-iO. Two plans. " Sr Walt. Covert, Sussex," at Slaugham, near Horsham. 267,272. Two plans. " Ampthill old howse, enlardged p J. Thorpe." "Duke of Bedford " (?). It was the residence of Queen Catherine, first wife of Henry \T 1 1. 265, 266. Plan and elevation, "'for Mr. Willm Powell," or Howell; of timber. Amongst the general designs, which are chiefly plans, are, page 21, " Sir Jo. Danvers, Chelsey;" 28, " Sr Wm. RuHden"(?); 31, "Mr. Johnson ye Druggyst ; " 43, "Sir Walter Rawley Sir James ; " 45, " Sir The. Dorrell, Lincolne shire ; " 46, and half eleva- tion, " Godstone ; " 59, two plans, " Sr George Set. Poole ; " 62, a long-fronted house at " Higate ; " 65. " Sr James (?) Clifton's howse ; " 121, " Mr. Keyes ; " 132, " Mr. Den- man ; " 147, 1-18, and elevation, " Sr William Haseridge ; " 176, " Mr. Panton ; " 182, " Holdenby banquetg at 16 fo ; " 185, " Mr. Folte"(?); 187, " Mr. W. Fitwilliams; " 199, Sr Hen. Nevile ; " 201,202, "Jo. Clanricard;" 205, " Sr Tho. Holt, 12pte;" and 2.33, " Hatfield lodge." 275-278, has a gallery 160ft. long and about 25ft. wide; 116 153. 164. 167, 215, 225. 232. 234.
The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester: To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon