A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 206
ppear to have been carried out. The whole of this house,considered in its time the finest in England, was destroyedin 1824. In 1723 Campbell designed Houghton in Norfolk for SirRobert Walpole. The general plan consists of a great centralblock, with 166 ft. front, connected by quadrant… … p _ ^ — o - o 8 CHAP. IX] CAMPBELL 171 Campbell; but the design is essentially Campbells; and thegeneral effect, in spite of a certain clumsiness of detail, isexceedingly fine. Campbells next important building was^lereworth Castle in Kent. This extraordinary design for anEnglish country house…
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