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Survey of London Monograph
… and build a new kitchen outside the house. Sir John Vanbrugh probably supervised the alteration. At some slightly …
Old and New London
… completed. Mr. Godwin seems to think Hawksmoor followed Vanbrugh's manner in the heaviness of his design. ST. MARY …
Old and New London
… an irregular castellated brickbuilt structure, called "Vanbrugh Castle." It stands on the Page-Turner estate, and was erected, about the year 1717, by Sir John Vanbrugh. It is entered by an embattled gateway, profusely … at Paris. At a short distance from this building are the Vanbrugh Fields, in which is another singularlooking house, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was completed in 1715, after a design by Sir John Vanbrugh, and is a magnificent pile 850 feet in extreme …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Churchill, duke of Marlborough engaged Sir John Vanbrugh to build a house in Woodstock Park, and together … duchess of Marlborough, completed the chief features of Vanbrugh's house plan, together with outworks such as the … building operation was on a vast scale, and by August 1705 Vanbrugh reckoned there were some 1,500 workmen on the site. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… royal gardener, although the design probably owed much to Vanbrugh. 47 The chief elements, quickly settled after some … axis possible, also bypassing the ruined manor house which Vanbrugh wished to preserve. It seems certain that both vista … avenue and a few circular or triangular plantations. 55 Vanbrugh seems to have accepted that there was a 'bleak, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century and early 18th, were extensive, 27 and Sir John Vanbrugh, while working on Blenheim Palace, made part …
Survey of London
… extended in 1909. 183 The design has a distinct flavour of Vanbrugh and is very like other police buildings by the same …
Survey of London
… is, indeed, closer to the brick Baroque associated with Vanbrugh than to the staid frontage of the average London …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… structure, said to have been from the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh, and erected about the commencement of the last …