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 311
e time he was employed in erecting ahouse in Bath, for Ralph Allen who became his mostmunificent patron, and for whom he was to design, a fewyears later, the splendid Prior Park. Allen had about thistime become associated in the undertaking for working theBath stone-quarries, and much of his wealth… … ^ WOOD OF BATH 247 domestic architecture may be recognised in the elaborate,and even beautiful, front with which he faced the mainblock, at the time that additions were being made to thenorth portion.^ This house was commenced in 1727, andthe next year Wood, while engaged on Dame LindseysRooms, was…
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