The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 111
aging him to prepare a design for their municipalbuildings. Joness work in the reign of Charles I. was appropriatelyinaugurated by one of his smaller but most famous creations-—the celebrated w^ater-gate, which he designed for the Dukeof Buckingham in 1626, and which was executed by Nicholas 1 See… … 55, INIGO JONES 79 Stone. Buckingham had only recently (1624) acquiredYork House ; and when he demolished the old residence,he erected a large building chiefly to store the wonderfulcollection of pictures which he was getting together.^ Itseems almost certain that had he lived the Duke wouldhave…
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