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A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 180

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artist, and this impression isconfirmed by the engravings of his designs of BuckinghamHouse and Cliefden House. Old Buckingham House wasremarkable as one of the earliest instances of the plan after-guards used so frequently by the eighteenth-century architects,of a large rectangular central block,… … THE CUSTOM HOUSE, KING S I.YNN. (From an Engraving by the Designer, H. Bell.) 146 BELL [chap. VIII House was more sumptuous, but hardly so attractive as theelevation of Cliefden House, which was begun by Wynne andcompleted by Archer, who added the two-storey offices on thenorth side. Of his simpler…

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