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 Term paper on Buckingham Palace
Buckingham House circa [[1710 as redesigned by William Winde for the Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
George IV died in 1830, and the colourful and heavily gilded present state and semi-state rooms were not completed until the reign of William IV, a man of simpler tastes, and his wife, Queen Adelaide.
By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and as a result the new wing, designed by William IV's architect Edward Blore, was built, enclosing the quadrangle which is the centre of the palace.
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 Buckingham_Palace LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
William IV dismissed Nash as architect and employed Edward Blore, who suited admirably the more restrained tastes of the new king.
Though William IV and Queen Adelaide held receptions and courts in the state rooms, they never lived in the palace, preferring to remain at Clarence House, the more modest London mansion they had commissioned to be built before their succession.
Prince William was christened in the Music Room; however, his brother, Prince Harry, was christened at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
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 Properties
Built in the 1680s for Sir John Brownlow, under the supervision of William Stanton, it has magnificent plaster ceilings by Edward Goudge, particularly in the chapel, wood carving of the Grinling Gibbons school, tapestries by John Vanderbank modelled on Mogul miniatures, and much fine furniture of its period.
William Blathwayt's uncle, Thomas Povey, was a man of fashion in Charles II's reign.
Built during the reign of William and Mary, Fenton House was one of the larger houses of the new development, but neither the names of the family who built it nor the architect are known.
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 CPAT SMR PRINTOUT
The barony became extinct in 1551 and in 1587 the Castle was purchased by the Herberts.
The insertion of the grand staircase between 1674 and 1685 (attributed to Winde) entailed further alteration to the internal layout and it may be that the inner walls of the NW drum tower were cut-down at this time to accommodate it.
The great staircase is attributed to William Winde, and was probably installed between 1673 and 1685, by the First Earl, William Herbert, whose coronet appears in the painted ceiling.
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Under the architectural direction of Sir William Chambers and over the following twelve years The Queen’s House was gradually modernised and enlarged to provide accommodation for the King and Queen and their children, as well as their growing collection of books, pictures and works of art.
As a writer who drew attention to the hardships born by the socially deprived and who advocated the abolition of the slave trade, he won enduring fame and gratitude and today, more than 110 years later, a wreath is still laid on his tomb on the anniversary of his death each year.
In complete contrast, William IY took a lot of persuading before he would agree to have a coronation at all, and the least possible amount of money was spent no it - giving it the name the «penny coronation».
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 Buckingham Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Various owners leased it from Royal landlords and the freehold was the subject of frenzied speculation in the 17th century.
The house which forms the architectural core of the present palace was built for the first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 to the design of William Winde.
Many of the smaller reception rooms were furnished during William IV's reign - as they remain today - in the Chinese Regency style, utilising many of the fireplaces, decorations, and furniture brought from George IV's palaces, the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House, following his death.
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 Coombe Abbey - Key Dates
Coombe Abbey was purchased by Elizabeth Craven, widow of Sir William Craven, (Lord Mayor of London in 1610-11, one of the richest men in his day), the Craven family remained as owners of Coombe Abbey for 300 years.
William, son of Sir William Craven became Baron Craven of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire and obtained a license from Charles I to enclose 650 acres of land at Coombe to make a Park, this is thought to be the origin of Coombe Country Park.
During this time William Miller, Head Gardener to Lord Craven was given the responsibility of designing and planting the north and east gardens, the kitchen garden was created which was to become renowned locally for the exotic fruits grown in its hot houses, (today sadly we can only see the outer walls).
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 History
Bridgeman had as his advisor his cousin, Captain William Winde who had conducted improvements on houses, gardens and parks elsewhere, including Coombe Abbey, Eastwell, Cliveden and Powys.
Under the guidance of Winde who consulted such eminent people as George London and Charles Hatton, the garden was designed as a formal arrangement of self-contained garden areas, some ornamental, some working, each separated by walls, hedges or level-changes at terraces.
The gardens were designed in the formal garden tradition, and have much in common with the Dutch style popularised by William III during his reign at the end of the 17th century.
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 Combe, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Combe, William, 1741-1823, English satirist and miscellaneous writer, b.
His writing was mainly hack work, issued anonymously to avoid seizure of the proceeds by his many creditors.
He is chiefly remembered for the "Dr. Syntax" series (3 vol., 1812-21), for which he wrote doggerel verse to accompany the illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson.
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 Coombe Abbey Hotel History
The east wing and part of the north wing of the Abbey were demolished and rebuilt in the new style (a picture of alterations to the east wing today can be seen on the wall opposite the guest lift).
William Andrew Nesfield (father of Eden Nesfield) landscaped the gardens on the south and west side of the abbey constructing the moat and canal leading to the lake.
During this time William Miller, Head Gardener to Lord Craven was given the responsibility of designing and planting the north and east gardens and the kitchen garden was created which became renowned locally for the exotic fruits grown in its hot houses.
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 Belton House, Lincolnshire
Belton House itself was built between 1684 and 1688.
It is believed to have been designed by William Winde and was built by William Stanton for Sir John Brownlow.
Today much of the property is open to the public although there was a section which was closed for repairs to be made due to it being unsafe.
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 Buckingham Palace - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
George IV died in 1830, and the colourful and heavily gilded present state and semi-state rooms were not completed until the reign of King William IV, a man of simpler tastes, and his wife, Queen Adelaide.
Image:Buckingham Palace ILN 1842.jpg The large wing facing east towards The Mall (today the 'public face' of Buckingham Palace) was constructed after the marriage of Queen Victoria.
Image:Buckingham Palace garden party ILN 1868.jpg At the rear of the palace is the large park-like garden, the largest private garden in London.
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chattingham
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 CPAT SMR PRINTOUT
His son, William Herbert, the 2nd Marquess and second titular Duke of Powis, stayed on at St. Germain-en-Laye while his Welsh estates were forfeit and given to William van Nassau van Zuylestien, created Lord Rochford and The Dutch Earl of Portland, by the victorious William III.
She had great plans for what she saw as 'a poor and meagre garden' which had declined as a result of 'leaving the care of the garden to the gardeners'.
Her staff, and head gardener John Lambert, may have felt differently, as in 1890s and 1909 the great garden writer and designer William Robinson had visited and had praised the condition, choice of planting and individual colour schemes of each terrace, commenting that it was 'a picture of what a flower garden should be'.
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 Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His family had made their fortune firstly in the music trade and later in the fur and property industries and were widely known and respected in American society.
The first building was designed by William Winde to emulate an Italian villa, with an arcaded terrace - part of which still remains today.
In 1868 the house was bought by Hugh Lupus, later Duke of Westminster who embarked on small improvements that William Astor was to reverse on his acquisition of the property in 1893.
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 More Info on buckingham palace - - bukingham palace - - buckingham place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
King William IV's guidance and practicality ensured the final completion of the palace.
By the time of the death of George IV, the escalating cost of the still unfinished palace was causing concern in both Parliament and the press.
The largest functions of the year are the garden parties, when up to 9,000 people attend, taking tea and sandwiches in a series of marquees.
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 Ashdown House Oxfordshire
Ashdown looks for all the world like a doll's house but its strange appearance is softened by the two detached pavilions on either side, added twenty years after the main block was built.
The architect is not known but it was probably William Winde who spent his early life with exiled Royalists in Holland and would have seen similar buildings in Amsterdam and other cities.
He was one of the richest figures of the 17th century and is remembered particularly for his dedication to James I's daughter Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.
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 Church Farm Bed and Breakfast
An Anglo-Dutch Restoration house designed by William Winde and built between 1685 and 1688.
The Hall was built in 1700 for Sir William Massingberd and now belongs to the National Trust.
It houses an exhibition of Field Marshall Montgomery-Massingberds memorabilia and is reputedly Tennyson's 'haunt of ancient peace'.
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 Buckingham palace
In 1702 an English nobleman, John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham commissioned the ‘learned and ingenious’ architect William Winde to design a mansion on the grandest site in London.
It is his job to watch for the moment when the royal limousine turns into the palace gates — at the very second the Queen enters her palace; and then the Royal Standard is hoisted.
It is the only official royal residence in the world which has kept a name bestowed on it by a nobleman — John Sheffield — the Duke of Buckingham, who constructed the original Buckingham House surrounded by a canal and a vast garden.
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 Coombe Abbey - Illustrations Index
William Winde's drawing for the new west front of Combe Abbey, c.
Winde's north-vest wing (left) was demolished in the 1920s
William Winde's drawing for the new north-west wing (right) of Combe Abbey, c.
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 selectsamplers.com - The National Trust - Commonwealth, Late Stuart and Queen Anne Periods
In 1934 the property was threatened with demolition, but William and John Brigg, brothers from Keighley, purchased the property and presented it to the National Trust.
Belton was built in 1685 - 88 to designs by William Winde and was altered about 80 years later by James Wyatt.
It is considered to be the greatest achievement of Restoration country house architecture.
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 Royal Insight > September 2005 > Mailbox > Page 2
Buckingham House was later transformed and enlarged for John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham in 1702-5 by the architect William Winde.
After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the lands of England came into the possession of William I. He and his successors received the profits from the lands, but over the centuries grants of large estates to nobles in exchange for military and other forms of service meant that the Crown lands were diminished.
The Crown Estate remains the property of the Sovereign in right of the Crown (not as a private possession) and is not Government property, but it is the tradition that at the start of each reign the new Sovereign surrenders to the Exchequer the surplus revenue from the lands for his or her lifetime.
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 Lincolnshire Historic Houses
In the 1770s the house was altered by the architect James Wyatt.The Brownlow and Cust families are descendants of an Elizabethan lawyer who bought the estate in 1617.
Built in 1556-87 by Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, who was principal adviser and Lord Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The rooms are around a courtyard in a medieval pattern, few alterations have been made to the exterior.
The property descended through the female line and in 1944 Gunby Hall was given to the National Trust by the family.In the house is an exhibition of Field Marshall Montgomery- Massingberd's memorabilia.
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 Appendix 1: Leases of the Principal Streets on the Estate | British History Online
Frederick Frankland, esq., M.P. Sub-let 1727 to William Barlow [snr.], bricklayer
William Waddell, plumber (assigned to Thomas Barlow, carpenter)
William Edwards, esq., Treasurer of New River Co.
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 Amazon.com: "much winde": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 ampthill
But he was deprived of the Living for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary on the grounds that to do this would break the oath he had already taken to James II.
After her death John, Lord Ashburnham, whose father had received the park from Charles II in repayment of a loan, planned to extend the house and make it his principal home.
For a time Nicholas Hawksmoor was his architect, but his plans were considered too drastic, and first John Lumley of Northampton and then William Winde, were brought in to meet the earl's exacting requirements.
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 The Stag Barkston Lincolnshire
elton house is within a mile of the Stag and was built by architect William Winde during the years 1685 - 1688.
incoln Castle was begun in 1068 and was one of the first great castles to be built by William the Conqueror on the hill top site that the Romans had occupied with their first fort.
Many of the castle visitors come to see the original 780 year old Lincoln Magna Carta, which is one of only four surviving originals sealed by King John after his meeting with the Barons at Runnymede in 1215.
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 Newsletter 152 — Belton House, Grantham
It was designed by the gentleman architect William Winde and built between 1685 and 1688 for "Young" Sir John Brownlow.
The Queen's Bedroom takes its name from Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, for whose visit in 1841 it was redecorated.
The Windsor Bedroom is named in honour of Belton's association with the Duke of Windsor who was a close friend of the 6th Lord Brownlow.
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 Details, Somerset HER
Knight (Diary, 1876) recorded seeing a pedimented greenhouse attributed by him to 'Winde' (perhaps William Winde c 1685-1722), a gothic shell-temple, a serpentine river which lacked water, a chapel and bastion with a fine view, a bowling green, bone house, hermitage, square summerhouse, grotto, and root house in the pleasure grounds.
After several changes of ownership, in 1899 William Henry Lloyd, banker and Birmingham steel manufacturer, purchased the estate, undertaking extensive mprovements to the house and grounds before his death in 1917.
There are further views north-east from Belmont towards the column erected by Lancelot Brown for William Pitt at Burton Pynsent (qv) in 1765, and south and south-west from the house across the park and adjacent agricultural land.
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